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Accession 9 89.52 Clots 


HISTORY 


THE  HOPKINS  FUND, 


Grammar  School  and  Academy, 


HA  I)  LEY,   MASS. 


PREPARED    AND     PUBLISHED    UNDER    THE    DIRECTION 

AND    AUTHORITY    OF    THE    TRUSTEES 

OF    HOPKINS    ACADEMY. 


AMHERST,  MASS.: 

THE  AMIIERST   RECORD   PRESS. 
1890. 


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PREFACE. 


The  pages  that  follow  came  to  be  in  this  wise.  For  about  a  hund- 
red and  fifty  years  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  had  a  being  and  did 
a  good  work  in  Hadley,  until  its  Trustees  by  charter  from  the  legisla- 
ture of  Massachusetts  became  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy. 

Under  this  name  the  good  work  has  gone  on  seventy  years  and  more 
until  the  present  time.  The  Fund  which  has  in  part  supported  the 
school  from  the  first,  had  its  beginning  in  the  bequest  of  Gov.  Edward 
Hopkins,  who  left  a  considerable  sum  from  his  estate  in  aid  and 
encouragement  of  good  learning  in  New  England,  then  newly  settled. 
This  Fund  received  increment,  from  time  to  time,  from  other  sources. 
Its  fortunes  have  been  various.  At  different  periods  its  concerns 
have  deeply  moved  the  minds  of  the  people,  and  been  a  considerable 
factor  in  the  life  of  the  town  and  the  community.  This  interest  has 
left  its  impress  in  the  record  of  town  meetings,  court  proceedings,  and 
the  doings  of  President  and  Council  who  were  in  power  in  New  P^ngland 
for  a  short  time  under  the  British  Crown  from  May  25  to  Dec.  20,  1 686. 

The  work  done  by  aid  of  this  Fund  has  been  benign.  Tt  has  been 
a  blessing  to  many.  The  story  is  rich  in  interest  and  worthy  of 
record,  that  all  who  wish  can  read  and  possess.  The  materials  for 
such  a  history  were  passing  beyond  reach.  To  make  sure  of  them, 
before  it  was  too  late,  was  felt  to  be  a  demand  of  duty,  that  did  not 
admit  of  longer  delay.  Questions  as  to  this  Fund,  and  its  proper 
administration  and  use  arising  from  time  to  time,  deemed  to  be  new, 
and  to  demand  hearing  and  adjustment,  were  known  to  be  questions 
long  ago  raised  and  decided  by  highest  authority.  It  was  proper  that 
such  knowledge  should  be  within  reach  of  all,  and  thus  occasion  for 
strife  be  wanting,  and  peace  and  good  will  prevail  unbroken. 

Hence  at  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  held  May 
(I,  1.S85,  after  discussion  of  the  subject,  it  was  voted  that  a  committee 
consisting  of  Rev.  Dr.  Ayres,  Rev.  Dr.  Dwight  and  Dea.  Geo.  Dick- 
inson be  chosen  to  investigate  and  arrange  for  publication  the  history 
of  the  Hopkins  Academy  Fund  from  its  inception,  its  present  stand- 
ing, and  its  relation  to  the  Board  of  Trustees  and  the  public." 

It  was  further  voted  that  Dr.  F.  Bonnev  be  added  to  the  committee. 


98952 


It  was  voted  that  the  above  committee  he  authorized  and  empowered 
to  expend  such  sums  of  money  as  they  may  deem  necessary  to  carry 
out  the  purposes  of  their  appointment."  Nov.  27,  1<SS(J,  it  was  voted 
"  that  the  committee  having  the  matter  in  charge  be  authorized  to  go 
forward  and  publish  the  History  of  the  Hopkins  Academy  Fund  which 
has  been  under  consideration  for  some  years." 

By  authority  of  these  earlier  votes  the  chairman  of  the  committee 
before  named  entered  upon  the  work  prescribed. 

This  proved  to  be  no  easy  task.  The  materials  of  the  history  were 
out  of  sight.  Records  and  papers  supposed  to  be  in  being  eluded 
search,  hopelessly  lost  in  some  instances.  Very  valuable  orig- 
inal papers  belonging  to  the  Academy  had  gone  from  its  posses- 
sion. Many  of  these  were  found  among  the  private  papers  of  the 
late  Sylvester  Judd,  who  probably  had  them  in  his  possession  by  per- 
mission for  the  purposes  of  his  History  of  Hadley,  and  failed  to 
return  them. 

After  his  death  these  papers  were  purchased  by  .1.  R.  Trumbull, 
Esq.  and  Dea.  Geo.  W.  Hubbard,  and  by  them  held  as  their  own  to 
dispose  and  convey,  until  the  death  of  Dea.  Hubbard,  who  by  his  will 
conveyed  them  to  be  held  by  the  Forbes  Library  in  trust.  These 
papers  at  present  are  with  J.  II.  Trumbull,  Esq.,  until  the  Forbes 
Library  building  is  ready. 

It  would  seem  as  if  these  papers  were  still  the  rightful  property  of 
the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  and  that  they  might  regain  pos- 
session of  their  own  by  process  of  law.  Should  they  reach  the  place 
of  deposit  intended  for  them,  however,  they  may  be  in  safer  keeping 
than  in  the  archives  of  the  Trustees.  Hints  are  now  and  then  met  of 
a  book  of  records  kept  by  the  Trustees  of  the  Grammar  School,  of 
which  no  trace  has  been  found. 

Printed  catalogues  published  by  the  Trustees  from  time  to  time 
have  yielded  very  valuable  information.  But  some  of  these  are  still 
missing  after  all  the  search  that  has  been  made. 

Much  valuable  information  has  been  derived  from  persons  living 
who  were  members  of  the  Academy  in  its  earlier  years.  Among  these 
may  be  named  Miss  Thankful  Smith  (now  deceased),  Mrs.  Charles 
W.  May,  Rev.  Henry  Seymour,  Dr.  Franklin  Bonney,  Rev.  Addison 
Ballard,  D.  D.,  Rev.  Ezekiel  Russell,  D.  I).,  and  many  others. 

It  is  hoped  that  this  memorial  of  a  noble  institution  and  its  work 
may  be  received  and  held  in  kind  esteem  by  all  among  its  pupils, 
teachers,  guardians,  patrons,  and  friends  who  may  scan  its  pages. 

Hadley,  Jan.  75,  1890. 


CHAPTER    I, 


EDWARD  HOPKINS  AND  HIS  WILL. 

The  school  known  as  Hopkins  Grammar  School  and  Hopkins  Acad- 
emy has  a  history  of  nearly  two  and  a  quarter  centuries.  Nothing 
concerning  this  town  is  worthier  of  record  than  the  story  of  this 
school,  and  its  Fund.  From  its  beginning  until  now  it  has  given 
the  town  a  name  and  memorial  widely  through  the  land,  and 
beyond  the  seas.  The  dweller  here  is  quite  sure  to  think  and 
speak  of  it  as  chief  among  the  good  things  that  give  honorable  dis- 
tinction. It  has  been,  and  is,  a  power  for  good,  in  the  town  and 
beyond,  far  and  wide.  It  has  done  a  good  work  and  made  a  record, 
which  should  be  preserved  in  such  form  as  to  be  within  reach  of  all 
who  feel  an  interest  in  these  things.  Such  is  the  aim  of  the  pages 
that  follow. 

The  man  whose  name  this  school  bears  and  perpetuates  was  not  its 
founder,  in  the  ordinary  sense,  though  to  him  its  being  and  such  a 
history  are  due.  Honor  to  whom  honor  is  due.  The  name  Hopkins 
should  be  held  in  grateful  remembrance,  (as  it  is  largely),  by  all  who 
are  or  have  been  dwellers  in  Hadley,  or  have  been  members  of  the 
school,  and  all  who  have  enjoyed  the  fruits  of  his  bounty  elsewhere, 
or  have  felt  the 'inspiration  of  his  spirit  and  example.  This  influence 
IIMH  been  benign  and  widely  pervasive.  The  wise  forethought  of  this 
man  was  remarkable  in  one  living  in  his  time,  though  like  so  many 
others  before  and  since  "  he  built  more  wisely  than  he  knew." 

Edward  Hopkins  began  life  with  the  seventeenth  century.  He  was 
born  in  Shrewsbury,  Shropshire,  England,  in  the  year  1600.  He  was 
a  scholar  in  the  Royal  Free  (Jnunmar  School  in  his  native  town.  The 
Grammar  School  which  he  would  establish  in  New  England  was  after 
the  pattern  with  which  he  was  familiar  in  his  youth,  a  school  for  boys, 
in  which  they  were  taught  in  the  tongues  and  fitted  for  the  University. 


These  schools  were  free,  in  that  they  were  open,  on  the  payment  of 
such  charges  as  were  necessary  to  maintain  them,  to  any  who  wished 
to  enjoy  such  advantages. 

Of  his  life  previous  to  leaving  England  little  is  known.  Engaging 
in  commerce  as  a  merchant  he  won  a  handsome  fortune.  In  early 
life  he  joined  the  Puritans  as  a  convert  to  their  doctrines  and  observ- 
ances. While  living  in  London,  he  had  worshiped  in  the  parish  church 
of  St.  Stephens  in  Coleman  Street  of  which  John  Davenport  was 
vicar.  Here  Theophilus  Eaton  was  likewise  an  attendant.  The  rela- 
tions of  these  men  were  close  and  confidential.  With  a  company  of 
friends,  including  the  two  just  named,  Edward  Hopkins  embarked  his 
fortunes  in  1637  to  find,  if  not  "  a  refuge  and  receptacle  for  all  sorts 
of  consciences,"  at  least  an  opportunity  to  worship  God  in  their  own 
way  and  to  administer  their  civil  affairs  "  more  according  to  the  rule 
of  righteousness"  than  was  then  the  fashion  in  the  Old  World. 

"•  1637,  Mo.  4,  26  Ship  Hector  and  another  arrived  at  Boston.  In 
these  came  Mr.  Davenport  and  another  minister  (Samuel  brother  of 
Gov.  Eaton)  and  Mr.  Eaton  and  Mr.  Hopkins,  two  merchants  of 
London,  men  of  fair  estate  and  good  esteem  for  religion  and  wisdom 
in  outward  affairs."  (Winthrop  Hist.  N.  E.  I,  22(>. ) 

"  Edward  Hopkins  was  one  who  would  be  a  foremost  man  wherever 
he  might  be." 

Declining  many  overtures  to  settle  in  Boston,  after  a  short  stay 
there  he  joined  the  settlement  at  Hartford,  where  he  is  at  once  found 
sharing  in  the  administration  of  public  affairs.  The  year  of  his  arrival 
his  name  appears  as  one  of  the  "  committee  "  of  the  General  Court  at 
Hartford,  so  that  it  is  deemed  likely  that  lie  had  part  in  that  assembly 
of  1638  by  which  the  "  inhabitants  and  residents  of  Hartford,  Windsor 
and  Weathersfield,did  associate  and  conjoin  themselves  to  be  one  Public 
State  or  Commonwealth"  "to  maintain  and  preserve  the  liberty  and 
purity  of  the  Gospel  of  the  Lord  .Jesus  Christ,  which  \ve  now  profess, 
and  in  civil  affairs  to  be  guided  and  governed  according  to  such  laws, 
rules  orders  and  decrees  as  shall  be  made,  ordered  and  decreed"  not 
by  the  King  and  Council — not  even  by  Royal  Parliament,  but  by  the 
General  Court,  elected  by  the  whole  body  of  freemen,  in  which 
"  The  Supreme  Power  of  the  Ooninioiiwealth"  was  declared  to  reside. 
That  constitution  was  the  nearest  approach  to  a  republican  organ- 
ized democracy,  in  which  the  whole  people  of  the  several  towns  acted 
through  representatives  in  a  legislature  elected  twice  a  year  by  all  the 
inhabitants,  that  the  world  had  yet  seen.  Mr.  Hopkins  was  elected 


first  secretary  of  the  Colony  of  Connecticut  and  deputy  Governor 
under  the  Constitution  of  l('>:'»s.  and  succeeded  Mr.  Haynes  as  Gov- 
ernor in  1640,  and  again  in  1646,  1648,1650  and  1652.  In  1654  he 
was  again  elected,  though  at  the  time  of  this  choice  he  was  in  England, 
whence  probably  his  return  was  looked  for. 

In  alternate  years  he  was  usually  Deputy  Governor,  and  frequently 
chosen  assistant  and  also  one  of  the  Commissioners  of  the  United 
Colonies.  In  this  last  capacity  he  signed  in  behalf  of  Connecticut 
the  articles  of  Confederation  in  164)).  by  which  the  Colonies  of  Mas- 
sachusetts, Plymouth,  Connecticut  and  New  Haven  united  for  future 
help  and  strength,  under  the  name  of  the  United  Colonies  of  New 
England,  and  was  president  of  that  body,  when  a  settlement  was  made 
with  the  Dutch  in  1650.  In  1640*  he  was  one  of  the  committee 
a i (pointed  to  negotiate  the  purchase  from  Mr.  Fenwick  of  the  port 
and  appurtenances  ;it  Saybrook.  And  indeed,  there  was  hardly  a 
committee  raised  on  the  "  foreign  relations  "  of  the  Colony  with  Mas- 
sachusetts, the  Dutch  or  the  Indians,  in  which  he  did  not  occupy  a 
prominent  place  with  Gov.  Haynes,  Capt.  Mason,  Mr.  Whiting  and 
Mr.  Wyllis.  In  the  interval  of  public  duty  he  was  diligent  in  busi- 
ness on  his  own  account. 

Gov.  Hopkins  went  to  England  in  1653,  on  the  occasion  of  his 
brother's  death,  intending  to  return  to  his  family  and  friends  in  New 
England  ;  but  on  his  arrival  there  he  was  soon  made  warden  of  the 
fleet,  (an  office  filled  by  his  brother  at  the  time  of  his  death) ,  Commis- 
sioner of  the  Admiralty  and  member  of  Parliament.  Detained  by 
these  new  duties,  he  sent  for  his  family,  and  died  in  London  in  March 
or  April,  1657.* 

While  he  remained  in  this  land  he  was  still  engaged  as  a  merchant, 
and  pushed  his  trading  stations  up  the  river  and  into  the  wilderness, 
and  founded  the  commerce  in  American  cotton. f  This  man,  who  bus- 
ied himself  with  affairs  both  public  and  private,  was  one  whose  phys- 
ical frame  was  frail.  He  was  a  man  of  feeble  health.  "  He  conflicted 
with  bodily  infirmities  but  especially  with  a  blood}7  and  wasting  cough 
which  held  him  for  thirty  years  together."  (Mather,  Mag.  §  5.) 

He  was  eminent  for  piety,  as  well  as  wisdom  and  success  in  secular 
affairs.  He  and  those  with  whom  he  came  hither  had  as  not  the  least 
of  their  reasons  for  removal  "  a  great  hope  and  inward  zeal  they  had 
of  laying  some  good  foundation,  or  at  least  to  make  some  way  there- 

*School  Report  city  of  Cambridge,  for  the  year  1885,  p.  35. 

Barnard  History  ot  Hopkins  Grammar  School,  Hartford. 

Letter  of  Gen'l  Court  of  the  Mass,  to  Mr.  Hopkins.    Hutchinsou  Coll.,  p.  271. 

tBacon's  Address. 


unto,  for  the  propagating  and  advancing  the  gospel  of  the  Kingdom 
of  Christ  in  these  remote  parts  of  the  world,  yea  though  they  should 
be  but  as  stepping  stones  unto  others  for  pel-forming  so  great  a  work." 
(Young's  Chronicles  of  the  Pilgrims,  p.  47.)  His  intimate  friend 
and  fellow  voyager  hither,  John  Davenport,  "  a  prince  of  preachers, 
and  worthy  to  have  been  a  preacher  to  princes,"  had  been  his  spiritu- 
al teacher  and  counsellor  in  London.  In  the  1 1  art  ford  church  he  had 
for  "  his  dear  pastor"  Thomas  Hooker  "  the  light  of  the  New  England 
churches,"  and  received  with  meekness  what  they  as  ministers  of 
Christ  had  to  impart.  He  bore  affliction  to  his  dying  day,  taught  by 
affliction  to  die  daily  as  long  as  he  lived.  One  expression  of  his 
heavenly  mind,  says  Mather,  among  many  others  in  a  letter  before 
his  end  was,  "How  often  have  I  pleased  myself  with  thoughts  of  a 
joyful  meeting  with  my  father  Eaton  !  1  remember  with  what  pleas- 
ure he  would  come  down  the  street  that  he  might  meet  me  when  I 
came  from  Hartford  unto  New  Haven,  but  with  how  much  greater 
pleasure  shall  we  shortly  meet  one  another  in  heaven."  With  such 
men  as  these  he  was  kindred  in  spirit,  sharer  in  their  sentiments, 
plans  and  counsels. 

The  wife  of  Gov.  Hopkins  was  the  daughter  of  the  second  wife  of 
Theophilus  Eaton,  first  and  sole  Governor  of  the  Colony  of  New 
Haven.  Mrs.  Eaton  was  a  prudent  and  pious  widow  of  David  Yale, 
daughter  of  the  Bishop  of  Chester,  Dr.  Morton.  Elihu  Yale  for  whom 
Yale  College  is  named,  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Yale,  son  of  Mrs. 
Eaton  by  her  first  husband  David  Yale.  Her  daughter  Anna 
was  the  wife  of  Edward  Hopkins,  named  by  him  in  his  will  as  his 
11  dear  distressed  wife,"  on  account  of  whose  condition  his  own  life 
was  marked  by  such  sad  and  sore  affliction.  With  all  his  property 
and  honor,  his  sad  spirit  depressed  by  bodily  disease  and  pain  bore 
this  added  weight.  "  She  was  one  that  had  from  a  child  been  obser- 
vable for  desirable  qualities.  But  sometime  after  she  was  married 
she  fell  into  a  distempered  melancholy  which  at  last  issued  in  an  incur- 
able distraction.  Very  grievous  was  this  affliction  unto  her  worthy 
consort,  who  was  by  temper  a  very  affectionate  person,  and  now  left  no 
part  of  a  tender  husband  undone,  to  ease  and  if  it  were  possible  to 
cure,  the  lamentable  desolation  thus  come  upon  the  desire  of  his  eyes." 
(Mather,  B.  II,  Ch.  7,  §  f>.) 

"  Mr.  Hopkins  the  governour  of  Hartford  upon  Connecticut  came 
to  Boston  and  brought  his  wife  with  him,  a  godly  woman  of  special 
parts,  who  was  fallen  into  a  sad  infirmity,  the  loss  of  her  understand- 


ing  and  reason,  which  h:ul  been  growing  upon  her  divers  years  by 
occasion  of  her  giving  herself  wholly  to  reading  and  writing  and  had 
written  many  hooks.  Her  husband  being  very  loving  and  tender, 
was  loath  to  grieve  her ;  but  he  saw  his  error  when  it  was  too  late. 
For  if  she  had  attended  her  household  affairs  and  such  things  as 
belong  to  women  and  not  gone  out  of  her  way  and  calling,  to  meddle 
in  such  things  as  are  pioper  for  men  whose  minds  are  stronger  etc., 
she  had  kept  her  wits,  and  might  have  improved  them  usefully  and 
honorably  in  the  place  God  had  set  her.  He  brought  her  to  Boston 
and  left  her  with  her  brother,  one  Mr.  Yale  a  merchant,  to  try  what 
means  might  be  had  here  for  her.  But  no  help  could  be  had."  (Win- 
throp,  History  of  Xew  England,  I,  p.  2(>C>  [217].) 

(iov.  Hopkins  was  a  liberal  man  devising  liberal  things.  He  lived 
to  serve  and  bless  others.  "He  considered  the  poor  and  would  put 
considerable  sums  of  money  into  the  hands  of  his  friends  to  be  by 
them  employed,  as  they  saw  opportunity,  to  do  good  unto  all,  especially 
to  them  that  are  of  the  household  of  faith.  In  this  thing  he  was  like 
that  noble  and  worthy  English  General,  of  whom  it  is  noted  that  he 
never  thought  he  had  anything,  but  what  he  gave  away,  and  yet  after 
all  with  much  humility  he  would  profess,  as  one  of  the  most  liberal 
men  that  ever  was  in  the  world,  often  would,  '  I  have  often  turned  over 
my  book  of  accounts,  but  I  could  never  (hid  the  great  God  charged  a 
debtor  there'."  (Mather,  Mag.,  B.  II,  Chap.  7,  §  4.) 

This  man  had  been  prosperous  in  business  and  gained  a  good  estate. 
Having  first  made  provision  for  the  needs  of  his  wife,  and  made  such 
other  legacies  to  relatives  and  friends,  as  he  deemed  proper  and  right, 
it  was  his  concern  that  what  remained  of  his  property  should  be  of 
use  for  generations  and  centuries  to  come,  in  helping  young  people  of 
promise  prepare  themselves  for  the  service  of  their  country,  and  of 
mankind.  Such  had  been  his  own  character.  His  forecast  of  the 
future  was  far-reaching  and  wise,  a  sure  instinct,  inspired  from  above. 
He  had  no  children  of  his  own,  and  he  made  it  a  care  and  study  that 
the  children  of  others  should  have  opportunity  in  the  way  of  good 
learning^  for  making  themselves  ready  for  such  service.  His  charac- 
ter and  spirit,  in  this  regard,  as  in  other  respects,  may  be  read  in  his 
will,  here  given  in  full. 
•2 


10 
EDWARD  HOPKINS'S   WILL. 

[A  copy  of  this  will  in  manuscript  is  among  the  papers  of  the  late  Sylvester  Jurtd,  now 
in  the  keeping  of  J.  R.  Trumbull,  Esq.  The  preface  in  Latin  is  omitteil.] 

The  sovereign  Lord  of  all  creatures  giving  in  evident  and  strong  intima- 
tions of" his  pleasure  to  call  me  out  of  this  transitory  life  unto  Himself — it  is 
the  desire  of  me  Edward  Hopkins  Esq.  to  be  in  readiness  to  attend  his  call 
in  whatsoever  hour  he  cometh — both  by  leaving  my  soul  in  the  hands  of  Jesus, 
who'only  gives  boldness  in  thai  day  and  delivers  from  the  wrath  to  come — 
and  my  body  to  comely  burial  according  to  the  discretion  of  my  executors 
and  overseers — and  also  by  settling  my  small  family,  if  it  may  be  so  called, 
in  order  and  in  pursuance  thereof  do  thus  dispose  of  the  estate  the  Lord  in 
mercy  hath  given  me. 

First  my  will  is,  that  my  just  debts  be  paid  out  of  my  entire  estate,  where 
the  said  debts  shall  be  found  to  be  justly  due.  vi/.,  if  any  debts  shall  be  found 
to  be  justly  due  in  New  England,  then  they  be  paid  out  of  my  estate  there. 
And  if  any  shall  appear  to  be  due  here  in  old  England,  that  they  be  paid  out 
of  my  estate  here. 

As  for  my  estate  in  New  England  (the  full  account  of  which  I  left  clear  in 
book  there,  and  the  care  and  inspection  whereof  \vas  committed  to  my  loving 
friend  Mr.  John  Cullick)  I  do  in  this  manner  dispose.  Item.  I  do  give  and 
bequeath  unto  the  eldest  child  of  Mrs.  Mary  Newton  wife  to  *Mr.  Roger 
Newton  of  Farmingtou  and  daughter  to  Mrs.  Thomas  Hooker,  deceased,  tin- 
sum  of  £30;  as  also  the  sum  of  £80  unto  the  eldest  child  of  Mr.  John  Oullick 
by  Elizabeth  his  present  wife.  Item.  I  do  give  and  bequeath  to  Mrs.  Sarah 
Wilson,  the  wife  of  Mr.  John  Wilson,  preacher  of  Hie  gospel,  and  daughter 
of  my  dear  pastor,  Mr.  Hooker,  my  farm  at  Farmington.  with  'ill  the  houses. 
outhouses,  buildings,  lands  &c.  belonging  thereunto,  to  the  use  of  her  and 
the  heirs  of  her  body  forever.  I  do  also  give  unto  Mrs.  Susan  Hooker,  the 
relict  of  Mr.  Thomas  Hooker,  all  such  debts  as  are  due  to  me  from  her  upon 
the  account  I  left  in  New  England. 

And  the  residue  of  my  estate  there  I  do  hereby  give  and  bequeath  to  My  father, 
Theophilus  Eaton,  Esq,  Mr.  John  Davenport,  Mr  John  Cnllick.  and  Mr.  William 
Goodwin,  in  full  assurance  oftJicir  trust,  and  faithfulness  in  disposing  of  it  according 
to  the  true  intent  and  purpose  of  me  the  said  Edward  Hopkins,  which  is  to  give  some 
encouragement  in  those  foreign  plantations  for  the  breeding  of  liopeful  youths  both  at 
the  grammar  school,  and  college,  for  the  public  service  of  the  country  in  future  times. 

For  the  estate  which  the  Lord  hath  given  me  in  tJiis  England  I  thus  dispose 
and  my  will  is  that  £150  per  annum  be  yearly  paid  per  my  executor  to  Mr. 
David  Yale,  brother  to  my  dear  distressed  wife  for  her  comfortable  mainte- 
nance, and  to  be  disposed  of  by  him  for  her  good,  she  not  being  in  a  condi- 
tion to  manage  it  for  herself;  and  I  do  heartily  entreat  him  to  be  careful  and 
tender  over  her;  and  my  will  is.  that  this  be  paid  quarterly  by  £.">7 — 10  each 
quarter  and  to  continue  to  the  end  of  the  quarter  after  the  death  of  my  said 
wife,  and  that  my  executor  give  good  security  for  a  punctual  performance 
thereof.  My  will  also  is  that  the  £:><>  given  me  per  the  will  and  testament  of 
my  brother  Henry  Hopkins,  lately  deceased,  be  given  to  our  sister.  Mrs.  Judith 


*First  minister  of  the  church  in  Farmington. 


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Kve.  during  her  natural  life,  and  that  it  be  made  up  to  £50  per  annum  during 
her  life. 

I  do  give  to  my  sister  Mrs.  Margaret  Thomson  the  sura  of  £50,  to  be  paid 
her  within  one  year  after  my  decease.  I  do  give  uuto  my  nephew  Henry 
Thomson  £800  whereof  £400  to  be  paid  within  sixteen  months  after  my 
decease  and  the  other  £400  within  six  months  after  the  death  of  my  wife. 

I  do  likewise  give  and  bequeath  to  my  neice  Katharine  Thomson,  but  now 
Katharine  James  (over  and  above  the  portion  of  £500  formerly  given  her) 
£100.  I  do  also  give  and  bequeath  unto  my  neices  Elizabeth  and  Patience 
Dalley,  unto  each  of  them  £200.  provided  they  attend  the  direction  of  their 
brother  or  aunts  or  such  as  are  capable  to  give  them  advice  in  the  dispose  of 
themselves  in  marriage. 

I  give  to  my  brother  Mr.  David  Yale  £200,  to  my  brother  Mr.  Thomas 
Yale  £200  and  to  my  sister  Mrs.  Hannah  Eaton  £200. 

My  farther  mind  and  will  is,  that  within  six  ^months  after  the  decease  of  mi/  wife 
£500  be  made  over  into  New  England ,  according  to  the  advice  of  my  loving  friends 
Major  Robert  Thomson  and  Mr.  Francis  Willoughby,  and  conveyed  into  the  hands  of 
the  trustees  before  mentioned,  in  further  prosecution  of  the  aforesaid  public  ends,  which 
in  the  simplicity  of  my  heart  are  for  the  upholding  and  promoting  the  kingdom  of  the 
Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  those  parts  of  the  earth.  I  do  further  give  unto  my  beloved 
wife  a  bed,  with  all  the  furniture  belonging  unto  it  for  herself  to  lie  on,  and 
another  for  the  servant  maid  that  waits  on  her,  and  £20  in  plate  for  her  pres- 
ent use  besides  one  third  part  of  all  my  household  goods. 

1  give  unto  Mr.  John  Davenport,  Mr.  Theophilus  Eaton,  Mr.  Cnllick  each 
of  them  £20,  to  be  made  over  to  them  in  New  England  where  they  are;  and 
my  will  and  pleasure  is  that  £20  be  put  into  a  piece  of  plate,  and  presented 
in  my  name  to  my  honored  friend  Dr.  Wright  to  whom  I  owe  more  than  that, 
being  much  engaged,  desiring  him  to  accept  it  only  as  a  testimony  of  my 
respects.  I  do  give  unto  my  servant  James  Porter  £10,  unto  my  maid  Mar- 
garet £5 ;  unto  my  maid  Mary  40  shillings.  I  do  give  unto  my  honored  and 
loving  friends  Major  Robert  Thomson  and  Mr.  Francis  Willonghby  £20  apiece 
in  a  piece  of  plate  as  a  token  of  my  respects  unto  them;  and  I  do  give  unto 
my  servant  Thomas  II  ay  ton  £20.  I  do  give  unto  my  sister  Yale  the  wife  of 
Mr.  David  Yale  £20,  as  also  to  John  Lollo.  a  youth  now  with  my  sister  Eve 
£20  to  farther  him  out  to  be  an  apprentice  to  some  good  trade  and  £20  more 
at  the  time  of  his  coming  to  his  own  liberty  to  encourage  him  to  set  up  his 
trade,  if  he  continue  living  so  long.  1  do  give  unto  my  nephew  Henry  Dalley, 
master  of  arts  in  Cambridge  my  land  and  manor  of  Thickol  in  the  county  of 
Ess'.»x;  and  for  the  payment  of  all  debts,  dues  and  legacies,  do  give  unto  him 
all  my  personal  estate,  and,  by  these  presents,  renouncing  and  making  void 
all  other  wills  and  testaments,  do  declare,  and  constitute  and  make  him  my 
sole  executor  and  my  good  friends  Major  Robert  Thomson  and  Mr.  Francis 
Willoughby  overseers  of  this  my  last  will  and  testament. 

Signed  sealed,  declared,  and  published  by  the  said  Kdward  Hopkins  Esq. 
at  his  home  in  London,  on  the  7th  day  of  March  in  the  year  of  our  Lord  1657, 
to  be  his  last  will  and  testament. 


CHAPTER  II. 


THE  TRUSTEES  I  NDEli  THE   WILL. 

The  persons  named  in  this  will  as  trustees,  are  worthy  of  larger 
mention.  Only  three  of  them  appear  in  the  execution  of  the  trust. 
The ophilus  Eaton  died  soon  after  the  will  was  made.  "This  man 
had  in  him  great  gifts,  and  as  many  excellences  as  are  usually  to  be 
found  in  any  man.  He  had  an  excellent  princely  face  and  port  com- 
manding respect  from  all  others."  u  He  carried  in  his  very  counte- 
nance a  majesty  which  cannot  be  described."  (Mather  I,  152.) 

u  No  character  in  the  annals  of  New  England  is  of  purer  fa  me  than 
that  of  Theophilus  Eaton."  (Winthrop,  J,  277,  note.) 

In  1643  he  was  first  designated  by  the  title  of  Governor  of  the  New- 
Haven  Colony,  which  office  he  held  by  annual  and  unanimous  election 
till  his  death  Jan.  8,  1658.  He  was  an  earnest  friend  of  education. 
He  was  careful  concerning  the  education  of  the  sons  in  his  own  fam- 
ily. He  kept  up  contributions  for  poor  scholars  at  the  college  at 
Cambridge.  He  corresponded  with  teachers  in  different  parts  of  New 
England,  "  that  this  town  might  never  be  without  a  suitable  school 
master."  (Barnard,  Journal  of  Education,  1828,  p.  27(1.) 

Anne,  the  daughter  of  his  second  wife  by  her  former  husband,  was, 
as  has  been  seen,  the  wife  of  Gov.  Edward  Hopkins. 

Another  of  these  trustees  was  Mr.  and  ('apt.  John  Cullick.  He 
was  a  leading  man  in  colony  and  church  affairs.  He  was  for  several 
years  one  of  the  magistrates,  and  secretary  of  the  colony.  He  was 
one  of  the  aggrieved  minority  in  the  Hartford  church  when  trouble 
arose  in  that  body,  "  the  withdrawal's  "  as  they  were  sometimes  called. 
His  name  is  found  (as  one  not  "fully  engaged")  among  the  original 
engagers,  who  met  at  Goodman  Ward's  house  in  Hartford  April  18, 
1659,  and  engaged  themselves  under  their  own  hands  or  by  their 
deputies,  whom  they  had  chosen,  to  remove  themselves  and  their 
families  out  of  the  jurisdiction  of  Connecticut  into  the  jurisdiction  of 
Massachusetts."  He  was  an  active  leader  in  promoting  this  mi- 
gration. 


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May  20,  1().")S.  ('apt.  (  ullick  and  Mr.  ( ioodwin,  being  in  Boston  for 
the  purpose,  petitioned  the  General  Court  there  in  their  own  and  oth- 
ers' behalf,  for  leave  to  settle  up  the  river  "  out  of  the  jurisdiction  of 
Connecticut,  and  within  the  pious  and  godly  government  of  Massa- 
chusetts." 

On  the  "25th  of  the  month  that  Court  gave  them  leave,  but  coupled 
the  permission  with  the  condition  that  they  submit  themselves  to  a 
due  and  orderly  hearing  of  the  differences  between  themselves  and 
their  brethren.  (Walker,  Hist.  1st  ch.  Hartford,  168,  Judd,  Hist. 
Hadley,  18,  ID.) 

Mr.  Cullick  removed  to  Boston  in  1651),  and  died  there  Jan.  23, 
1663.  (Barnard  III,  182.) 

Among  these  Trustees  the  name  of  John  Davenport,  already  men- 
tioned, is  second  to  none. 

He  was  born  in  Coventry,  England,  in  1598,  of  which  city  his 
grandfather  was  mayor.  In  1607  lie  was  schoolmate  of  Theophilus 
Eaton  in  the  Coventry  Grammar  School,  admitted  to  Oxford  before 
he  was  14,  called,  as  assistant  to  another,  to  public  and  constant 
preaching  in  London  at  11).  Here  he  won  admiration  and  praise  as  a 
preacher,  and  for  courage  in  visiting  and  residing  with  his  flock  in 
time  of  a  dreadful  plague.  In  1624  he  was  vicar  of  St.  Stephen's 
Church  in  Coleman  Street,  London,  where  his  friendship  with  Gov. 
Eaton  grew  and  ripened  into  a  close  intimacy,  which  helped  to  shape 
the  future  of  both.  Here  Edward  Hopkins  was  likewise  his  friend 
and  parishioner.  He  ceased  to  be  in  sympathy  with  the  Church  of 
England  in  doctrine  and  polity,  and  became  the  object  of  suspicion  to 
Abp.  Laud.  He  suffered  spoiling  of  goods  and  resigned  his  benefice, 
left  England  for  Holland,  whence,  finding  himself  out  of  harmony  with 
those  with  whom  he  was  thrown,  he  returned  to  England  in  1635. 
Having  learned  that  civil  and  church  affairs  in  New  England  were 
taking  shape  in  accord  with  his  own  mind,  he  and  Eaton  became  lead- 
ers in  an  expedition  chiefly  of  Londoners  who  came  in  the  ship  Hector 
and  another,  and  landed  in  Boston  in  1637.  Davenport  and  Eaton 
were  chief  agents  in  founding  the  colony  of  New  Haven,  where,  with 
Davenport  as  pastor,  the  1st  church  of  New  Haven  was  gathered  and 
constituted  Aug.  22,  KJ.'W. 

In  1651  he  was  invited  to  remove  to  Boston  and  become  pastor  of 
the  second  church  then  newly  formed.  This  invitation  he  declined, 
but  later,  when  New  Haven  was  no  longer  a  colony  by  itself,  but 
absorbed  in  Connecticut,  he  left  his  charge  at  New  Haven  to  accept 


u 

the  urgent  call  to  the  first  church  in  Boston.  He  removed  thither  and 
was  installed  Dec.  1,  1668,  when  more  than  seventy  years  of  age,  and 
died  March  11,  1670,  ae.  72.  He  was  a  very  ardent  friend  of  educa- 
tion. It  was  his  strong  desire  that  a  college  should  be  founded  at 
New  Haven.  He  corresponded  with  Gov.  Hopkins  concerning  it,  had 
hopes  of  aid  from  him  concerning  it,  which  failed  of  fruition  by  reason 
of  the  death  of  Gov.  Hopkins,  and  he  was  the  close,  constant,  confiden- 
tial friend  of  the  Governor,  and  of  course  earnest  and  hearty  in  the 
desire  and  purpose  to  carry  out  his  plans  as  expressed  in  his  will. 
(Barnard,  Journal  of  Education,  III,  280,  28").) 

As  has  been  noted,  one  of  the  trustees  under  the  will  of  Gov.  Hop- 
kins was  William  Goodwin.  Since  through  him  chiefly  any  portion 
of  this  legacy  found  its  way  to  Hadley,  more  extended  notice  of  him 
will  be  in  place  in  this  history. 

It  is  thought  that  he  was  probably  an  Oxford  graduate  admitted 
B.  A.  1622 — 23.  He  sailed  from  London  in  the  ship  Lyon,  Win. 
Pierce  master,  June  22nd,  and  arrived  in  Boston  Sept.  16,  1632.  He 
is -soon  settled  at  Newtown  (Cambridge),  where  from  the  first  he  was 
prominent  in  civil  and  in  church  affairs,  as  he  was  later  at  Hartford 
and  Hadley.  He  was  a  man  of  character,  of  large  means  and  great 
influence.  Gov.  Winthrop  speaks  of  him  as  kt  a  very  reverend  and 
godly  man,"  but  records  the  censure  received  by  him  in  one  instance 
in  open  court,  for  some  4i  unreverend  speech"  to  one  of  the  assistants, 
as  also  Goodwin's  humble  acknowledgement  of  his  fault. 

He  was  made  freeman  in  Massachusetts  Nov.  6,  16:52,  and  in  May, 
1634,  deputy  from  Cambridge  to  the  General  Court.  He  was  chosen 
ruling  elder  of  the  Newtown  church  as  early  as  1633. 

As  ruling  elder  he  and  some  other  laymen,  (among  them  probably, 
Dea.  Andrew  Warner)  laid  hands  in  ordination  on  Mr.  Hooker,  pastor, 
and  Mr.  Stone,  teacher  in  that  church.  He  was  one  of  the  foremost  in 
furthering  the  removal  from  Newtown  to  Hartford.  When  land  was 
to  be  bought  in  Hartford  in  1636  by  the  emigrants  from  Newtown, 
the  agents  in  the  negotiation  were  Mr.  Stone,  teacher,  and  Mr.  Good- 
win, ruling  elder  of  the  Hartford  church.  In  the  office  of  ruling  elder 
he  was  next  in  dignity  to  the  pastor  and  teaeher.  lie  was  moderator 
of  church  meetings.  It  pertained  to  the  office  to  propose  the  admis- 
sion and  dismission  of  members,  prepare  all  matters  of  business  in 
the  church,  to  keep  watch  of  the  private  conduct  of  church  members, 
to  bring  incorrigible  offenders  before  the  whole  body  for  hearing  and 
judgment,  to  pronounce  censure  when  determined,  to  call  the  church 


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together  and  dismiss  its  meetings  with  the  benediction,  to  visit  the 
sick,  to  ordain  persons  elected  by  the  church  to  any  office  therein,  to 
preach  in  the  absence  of  the  pastor  and  teacher.  Thus  in  one  instance 
lie  >k  exercised,"  as  the  conduct  of  public  religious  service  was  called, 
for  two  months  continuously  in  the  absence  of  pastor  and  teacher  at 
i\  synod  in  Boston  in  1637. 

Mr.  Goodwin  lived  in  close  and  happy  intimacy  with  his  pastor,  Mr. 
Hooker,  until  his  death,  July  7,  1(54 7.  To  Mr.  Goodwin  and  Gov. 
Hopkins  Mr.  Hooker  in  his  last  will  committed  the  care  of  his  prop- 
erty and  the  custody  of  his  children. 

He  lived  in  happy  relation  with  Mr.  Stone  and  his  brethren  in  the 
church  until  about  six  years  after  the  death  of  Mr.  Hooker. 

Then  came  a  time  extending  from  f658  to  1659  of  sore  and  bitter 
<1  narre!  in  the  Hartford  church,  which  drew  the  attention  of  all  the 
New  England  churches,  and  fills  large  space  in  the  early  ecclesiastical 
history  of  this  colony. 

It  has  been  taken  for  granted  that  the  question  at  issue  in  this  strife 
was  one  of  baptism  and  the  rights  of  the  children  of  baptized  church 
members.  Of  late  this  view  is  called  in  question.  It  is  now  thought 
that  the  large  element  in  the  controversy  was  personal.  It  was  a 
struggle  concerning  the  rights  of  the  minority  of  the  church,  "the 
withdrawers  ",  and  the  majority  led  by  Mr.  Stone,  a  man  of  strong 
individuality,  disposed  to  magnify  his  office,  as  in  his  turn  was  Mr. 
Goodwin  likewise. 

The  convictions  of  the  two  parties  concerning  each  other's  rights 
and  prerogatives  were  strongly  opposed.  Mr.  Goodwin's  feeling  was 
strong  that  the  rights  of  the  brotherhood  were  disregarded. 

It  is  generally  agreed  that  this  church  difficulty  began  in  antago- 
nism between  'reaching  Elder  Stone  and  Ruling  Elder  Goodwin,  both 
men  of  strong  character,  firm  conviction,  unbending  will,  staunch  and 
steadfast  in  maintaining  truth  and  right  as  they  saw  them. 

This  difference,  it  is  thought,  is  very  much  one  concerning  a  pulpit 
candidate.  On  one  occasion  Mr.  Stone  hindered  a  vote  of  the  church 
concerning  the  fitness  of  Mr.  Wigglesworth  for  office  in  the  place  of 
Mr.  Hooker. 

There  were  stormy  church  meetings  one  after  another,  in  which  Mr. 
(Joodwin  charged  that  the  act  of  the  teacher  infringed  the  preroga- 
tives of  others. 

The  majority  was  with  the  teacher  and  acquitted  him,  but  the  charge, 
though  rejected  by  the  church  after  debate  in  two  meetings,  was  again 


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preferred  in  a  formal  paper  by  Mr.  Cullick,  to  which  the  church  sent  a 
reply  which  is  lost. 

These  two  men  were  much  heated.  But  Mr.  Goodwin  felt  most 
keenly  his  practical  deposition  from  the  office  of  ruling  Elder  in  the 
church  and  its  official  headship,  by  the  choice  of  a  moderator.  This 
was  done  by  the  advice  of  Mr.  Stone  who  had  resigned  his  office. 
Mr.  Goodwin  was  a  man  "  fond  to  rule  ",  for  whom  it  was  not  easy  to 
accept  graciously  the  loss  of  such  a  position. 

The  minority  apparently  withdrew  from  the  communion  of  the 
church,  refused  to  recognize  Mr.  Stone  as  an  officer  of  the  church, 
and  asked  for  a  council  to  consider  the  whole  case. 

After  hindrance  and  delay  such  a  council  was  held  June  11,  l(>f)(>, 
resulting  in  the  substantial  vindication  of  the  minority  as  against  the 
arbitrary  course  of  Mr.  Stone  and  the  church.  They  did  not  accept 
the  decision.  Mr.  Stone  went  to  Boston  to  consult  the  elders  there, 
five  of  whom  wrote  to  the  withdrawers,  deploring  their  differences, 
and  offering  their  offices  of  help  toward  a  settlement. 

A  Council  of  nine  churches  and  seventeen  members  held  at  Boston 
Sept.  2(),  16;")!),  in  its  result  reproves  both  parties,  expresses  the  hope 
that  mutual  satisfaction  may  be  given,  that  there  be  a  return  of  the 
dissenters  into  communion  with  the  church  of  Hartford  as  formerly. 
But  if  any  still  desire  to  remove,  the  council's  advice  and  determina- 
tion is,  that  the  church  forthwith  give  their  dismission  kk  and  that  such 
as  have  joyned  themselves  to  another  church  doe  solemnly  renew  their 
covenant."  The  council  ends  with  a  pathetic  exhortation  to  love  and 
unity,  and  not  to  turn  again  to  folly. 

This  result  was  graciously  received  by  the  representatives  of  both 
parties,  of  which  they  gave  proof  before  they  left  Boston  for  home. 
Most  of  the  withdrawers,  led  by  Mr.  Goodwin  and  John  Webster,  soon 
removed  to  Hadley,  (had  already  virtually  done  so),  and  the  great 
quarrel  in  the  Hartford  church  was  over. 

"  On  the  whole  respecting  this  controversy  the  impartial  verdict  of 
history  must  be  that  in  spite  of  many  irregularities  and  doubtless  a 
good -deal  of  temper  on  both  sides,  the  general  weight  of  right  and 
justice  was  with  the  defeated  and  emigrating  minority."-  (  Walker's 
History,  First  ch.  Hartford,  pp.  14(5 — 175.) 

We  know  this  man  by  the  goodly  company  in  which  we  find  him. 
Mr.  Goodwin  was  of  like  mind  with  Theophilus  Eaton,  John  Daven- 
port and  John  Cullick.  They  were  one  in  spirit,  in  principle,  thought, 
aim  and  purpose.  They  walked  together  because  they  were  agreed. 


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Gov.  Hopkins  chose  Mr.  Goodwin  as  one  of  the  trustees  of  his 
estate  for  he  knew  him  and  believed  in  him.  He  had  been  with  him 
in  the  conduct  of  affairs  with  the  Indians.  He  was  fellow  member 
with  him  in  the  church  in  Hartford.  Gov.  Hopkins  was  a  man  of 
peace,  and  yet  it  is  thought  that  he  was  in  sympathy  with  the  minor- 
ity in  the  Hartford  church.  The  trouble  had  begun,  as  he  was  leav- 
ing the  country,  and  he  was  aware  of  its  progress  as  it  went  on,  and 
with  this  knowledge  chose  Mr.  Goodwin  as  one  to  exercise  this  trust. 

M  r.  Davenport  of  New  Haven  likewise  was  in  sympathy  with  the 
minority  withdrawing,  among  whom  Mr.  Goodwin  was  a  leader.  He 
opposed  their  course  in  propounding  themselves  for  admission  to  the 
Wethersfield  church.  Papers  drawn  up  and  signed  by  Rev.  John 
Higginson  of  Guilford  in  answer  to  inquiries  of  the  Weathersfield 
church  concerning  the  propriety  of  admitting  the  withdrawers  to  their 
fellowship,  served  greatly  to  strengthen  and  encourage  tiiem  in  their 
course.  (Walker,  p.  Hi!!.) 

The  troubles  in  the  Hartford  church  had  this  outcome.  Mr.  Good- 
win and  those  with  him,  deeming  that  in  no  other  way  they  could 
gain  their  hearts'  desire,  first  meditated  removal,  planned  it,  carried 
out  their  plans.  These  withdrawers  from  the  Hartford  church,  with 
others  of  like  mind  in  the  churches  of  Weathersfield  and  Windsor, 
were  the  first  white  settlers  of  Hadley,  with  whose  coming  hither  the 
church  of  Christ  in  Hadley  as  such  began  its  life. 

On  this  wise  was  the  coming  of  Mr.  Goodwin  to  Hadley,  who  was 
among  the  first  to  come,  and  in  it  is  found  the  answer  to  the  question, 
how  any  part  of  the.  Hopkins  legacy  found  its  way  hither,  since  Edward 
Hopkins  himself  had  been  dead  more  than  two  years,  when  the  "en- 
gagers" held  their  meeting  in  Hartford  in  April,  l(»y!).  and  knew  little, 
it  is  likely,  of  this  region  as  the  probable  site  of  an  emigrating  colony 
from  Hartford.  In  considering  the  disposition  of  the  estate,  there  will 
be  occasion  to  take  further  notice  of  Mr.  Goodwin  and  his  part  in 
these  transactions. 


CHAPTER  TIL 


THE  DISPOSAL  OF  GOY.   HOPKINS'   ESTATE. 

The  trustees  were  delayed  in  the  execution  of  their  trust  six  years. 
The  General  Court  of  Connecticut  was  in  sympathy  with  the  majority 
in  the  Hartford  church  and  with  the  town  as  well.  Hence  the  Court 
sequestered  the  estate  and  directed  the  payment  of  all  rents  and  debts 
not  to  the  trustees,  but  to  the  Selectmen  of  the  several  towns  where 
the  property  was  situated,  who  were  also  held  accountable  to  the 
General  Court.  This  fund  must  be  kept  in  Hartford.  Such  was  the 
feeling,  desire,  purpose,  study.  Mr.  Goodwin's  removal  with  a  colony 
to  Hadley  meant  the  loss  of  the  fund  to  Hartford.  Aug.  23,  1658 
the  Court  "  ordered  and  required  that  the  several  towns  where  any  part 
of  the  estate  of  either  Edward  Hopkins  Esq.  or  George  Fen  wick  Esq. 
be  known  to  remain  shall  speedily  take  inventory  of  said  estate  and 
present  it  under  the  hands  of  those  who  order  the  prudentials  of  the 
town  to  the  Court  in  October  next."  (Conn.  Col.  records.)  This 
was  not  done  for  the  aid  or  at  the  request  of  the  trustees,  for  they 
were  "  hindered"  by  it.  They  had  already  an  inventory  of  the  estate. 
Mr.  Hopkins  says  in  his  will,  that  he  had  left  a  clear  list  of  it  with 
Capt.  Cnllick.  (Bacon,  Appendix  4<s. )  (Barnard.) 

This  order  was  neglected  as  would  appear  from  a  vote  of  June  1  ">, 
1().V.)  ''that  whatever  person  or  persons  in  this  Colony  have,  in  their 
present  possession  or  improvement,  any  estate  that  either  is,  or  has 
been  reputed  the  estate  of  Geo.  Fen  wick  or  Edward  Hopkins  Esq. 
that  they  secure  and  preserve  the  said  estate  in  their  own  hands,  or  the 
value  thereof,  (casualties  accepted)  to  be  accountable  to  this  court, 
when  required  thereunto,  until  the  wills  and  inventories  of  said  gen- 
tlemen be  exhibited  into  this  court  and  right  owners  to  the  estate 
appear  and  administration  be  grunted  according  to  law."  The  effect 
of  this  vote,  says  Bacon,  would  naturally  be  what  Mr.  Davenport 
complains  it  was,  to, make  those  indebted  to  the  estate  refuse  to  pay 
their  debts  to  the  trustees  and  to  lock  up  the  whole  estate1  for  safe 
keeping  until  a  satisfactory  share  of  it  was  allotted  to  Hartford. 


Oct.  ('),  1(559  "  The  last  will  of  Edward  Hopkins  P^sq.  being  exhib- 
ited into  this  court  it  is  thought  meet  by  this  court  that  the  former 
restraint  laid  upon  the  estate  should  be  taken  off  and  that  the  debts 
due  the  estate  should  be  required  and  gathered  in,  to  prevent  damage 
to  the  estate."  This  order,  says  Barnard,  probably  originated  in  the 
fact  that  owing  to  a  council  held  at  Hartford  in  June,  1659,  to  com- 
pose the  difficulties  in  the  church  in  Hartford,  Elder  Goodwin  and  his 
friends  temporarily  gave  up  the  design  of  removing  to  Hadley,  but 
resuming  their  intentions  to  leave,  the  sequestration  was  renewed  by 
the  following  order  of  the  General  Court.  "Feb.  2.'J,  1659 — 60. 
Whereas  there  hath  been  a  repealing  of  the  former  restraint  laid  upon 
the  estate  of  Edward  Hopkins  Esq.  that  debts  due  the  estate  might 
be  taken  in.  Upon  further  consideration,  this  court  orders  that  the 
estates  aforesaid  be  secured  within  this  colony,  until  the  said  estate 
be  inventoried  and  the  inventory  be  presented,  and  administration 
granted  by  this  court." 

By  an  order  passed  May  17,  1660,  it  appears  that  an  inventory  of 
the  estate  had  not  been  presented,  whereupon  individuals  holding  the 
estate  and  the  selectmen  of  the  several  towns  were  required  to  make 
presentment  thereof  at  the  next  court  on  penalty  of  £5  for  each  neg- 
lect. By  a  subsequent  order  dated  June  N,  1661.  the  treasurer  was 
required  to  take  the  custody  or  the  rents  of  portions  of  the  estate 
occupied  by  John  Cole  and  William  Hills.  In  pursuance  of  this 
order  (May  17)  Joseph  Mygatt,  John  Allen,  James  Steele  and  Wil- 
liam Kelsey,  "Townsmen  of  the  town  of  Hartford,"  presented  to 
the  General  Court,  June  18,  1660,  a  month  after  the  order  was  passed, 
an  inventory  of  the  Hopkins  Estate,  amounting  to  £1.'>S2 — 03 — 06, 
"  Besides  the  iiegar."  On  the  back  of  this  inventory  is  the  following 
endorsement : 

"Hartford,  June  16,  1660.  Concerning  Mr.  Hopkins  estate  we 
underwritten  having  presented  the  order  of  court  to  l)ea.  Stebbing 
and  Lieut.  Bull  desiring  their  return  ;  they  answered  as  followeth : 
that  the  inventory  on  this  paper,  was  a  true  inventory,  as  far  as  they 
knew,  only  his  farm  at  Farmington  and  some  trifles  excepted,  come 
to  hand  since,  and  they  do  engage  to  preserve  the  said  estate  and 
make  return  of  it  to  the  court  at  any  time  it  is  demanded,  until  the 
will  and  inventory  of  Mr.  Hopkins  be  proved  in  the  Court  at 
Hartford." 

In  this  inventory  "His  housing  and  land  in  Hartford  and  Weath- 
ersh'eld "  are  set  down  at  £621),  which  deducting  t'.S  1  for  Weathers- 
field,  leaves  £545  for  the  value  of  Jiis  real  estate  in  Hartford. 


On  the  3d  of  October,  1061.  '•'  The  will  and  testninent  of  Kdward 
Hopkins  P^sq.  being  presented  to  this  court  legally  attested,  is  accepted 
as  authentic.  This  court  do  likewise  order  and  impower  Edward 
Stebbing  and  Lt.  Thomas  Bull,  to. take  the  management  of  the  estate 
of  Mr.  Hopkins  deceased  into  their  hands  :md  the  gathering  in  the 
debts  due  to  the  estate,  and  to  be  accountable  to  the  court  for  the 
same,  when  called  thereunto." 

Dea.  Stebbing  and  Lieut.  Bull  had  the  charge  of  the  estate  of  (iov. 
Hopkins'  estate  in  Connecticut,  not  only  by  appointment  of  the  Gene- 
ral Court  but  by  a  prior  appointment  of  the  Trustees  in  1.659,  under 
authority  given  by  Henry  Dalley,  sole  executor  of  the  will. 

"Upon  a  proposition  from  Mr.  Goodwin,  in  reference  to  the  legacy 
belonging  to  THIS  COLONY  by  the  last  will  of  Mr.  Hopkins,  and  whereas 
there  was  by  a  writing  a  tender  of  £350  to  this  colony  out  of  that 
estate  :  this  court  doth  declare  that  they  do  not  reject  the  tender. 
And  further,  this  court  doth  appoint  Major  Mason,  Mr.  Matthew 
Allyn,  Mr.  Wyllys  and  Capt.  John  Talcott,  as  a  committee  to  treat 
with  the  trustees  of  Mr.  Hopkins's  estate  about  foresaid  legacy,  and 
what  the  major  part  of  those  that  meet  do  conclude,  shall  stand  as 
the  issue  of  that  business  and  the  secretary  is  to  write  a  letter  to  the 
Trustees  to  appoint  time  and  place  of  meeting." 

This  committee  corresponded  with  Mr.  Goodwin,  desiring  the  Trus- 
tees to  appoint  a  time  and  place  to  meet  with  this  committee,  "  to  put 
a  final  issue  to  the  business  respecting  the  legacy."  But  Mr.  Good- 
win under  date  Feb.  24,  1601  wrote  that  the  committee  have  ordered 
£350  to  be  allowed  on  conditions  named, — a  characteristic  letter  here- 
with given  entire. 
Letter  from  Mr.  Goodwin  to  the  Honored  Court  that  is  to  be  held  in 

Hartford  in  March  next  following  the  date  hereof. 
MUCH  HONORED. 

We  received  writings  from  yon  signed  by  the  secretary,  wherein 
you  desired  the  Trustees  to  appoint  a  time  and  place  to  meet  with  a  commit- 
tee which  you  have  chosen  to  treat  with  them  and  to  put  a  final  issue  to  the 
business  respecting  the  legacy.  I  am  desired  in  the  name  of  all  the  Trustees 
to  inform  the  Court  that  we  cannot  entertain  that  motion,  both  for  that  we 
are  not  able  to  undertake  such  travel,  nor  do  we  see  any  use  at  all  of  it  (if 
we  were  able)  for  we  have  ordered  three  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  set  out  of 
Mr.  Hopkins'  estate  committed  to  our  trust  to  be  allowed  to  Hartford  upon 
these  conditions  and  terms  following.  (1)  That  it  be  by  them  improved 
according  to  the  mind  of  the  donor  expressed  in  his  will.  (2)  That  this  court 
do  also  engage  to  remove  all  obstructions  out  of  our  way  that  we  may  not  be 
disturbed  nor  any  way  hindered  from,  by,  or  under  them,  in  the  management 


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of  the  rest  of  that  estate,  according  to  our  trust,  that  so  love  and  peace  may 
be  established  between  us.  (15)  That  yon  will'  deliver  us  back  the  attested 
copy  of  the  will  sent  us  from  England  or  else  a  true  copy  of  it  under  the  seal 
of  the  colony. 

Now  if  it  please  the  honored  Court  or  their  Committee  to  accept  of  this 
tender  of  £350  as  is  aforesaid,  and  shall  deliver  unto  us.  or  to  our  attornies 
an  instrument  drawn  up  in  writing  and  sealed  with  the  seal  of  the  Colony 
wherein  all  the  conditions  of  the  tender  aforesaid  shall  be  fully  and  plainly 
expressed  and  confirmed  by  the  Court  as  aforesaid  before  the  last  of  March 
next  ensuing  the  date  hereof,  that  then  this  grant  of  £350  to  Hartford  as 
abovesaid  shall  be  settled  upon  them,  to  be  improved  by  them  according  as 
is  expressed  in  the  will  of  the  donor.  But  if  the  Court  do  not  plainly 
declare  their  acceptance  according  as  is  above  expressed,  then  we  hereby 
declare  our  grant  to  them  here  inserted  to  be  a  nullity  and  void;  and 
thus  I  humbly  take  leave  of  you,  subscribing  myself,  Your  worships  in  all 
due  observance, 

WILLIAM  GOODWIN, 
In  the  name  of  the  rest  of  the  Trustees. 

Hadley,  February,  24th,  1661. 

It  could  have  been  no  easy  matter  for  these  Trustees  to  meet  and 
confer  with  the  committee  in  Hartford  as  requested,  since  Mr.  Goodwin 
must  make  the  journey  from  Hadley,  Mr.  Davenport  from  New  Haven 
and  Capt.  Cullick  from  Boston. 

From  a  writing  presented  to  the  General  Court  at  New  Haven  by  Mr. 
Davenport  resigning  the  donation  of  Governor  Hopkins  to  their  care, 
dated  the  fourth  day  of  the  fourth  Moneth,  1660,  it  appears  that  the 
three  Trustees  and  legatees  then  surviving,  viz.  :  himself,  Capt.  Cullick 
and  Mr.  Goodwin,  "met  together  to  consider  what  course  they  should 
take  for  the  discharge  of  their  trust,  and  agreed  that  each  of  them  should 
have  an  inventory  of  the  aforesaid  testatour's  estate  in  New  England, 
in  houses  and  goods  and  lands,  which  were  prized  by  some  in  Hartford, 
intrusted  by  Capt.  Cullick  and  Mr.  Goodwin,  and  in  debts,  for  the 
gathering  in  whereof  some  attorneys  were  constituted,  impowered  and 
employed  by  the  three  surviving  trustees,  as  the  writing  in  the  magis- 
trate's hands  will  show. 

Afterward,  at  another  meeting  of  the  said  Trustees,  they  consid- 
ering that 

"  by  the  will  of  the  dead,  they  are  joyned  in  one  common  trust,  agreed  to 
act  wth  mutual  consent  in  performance  thereof,  and  considering  y'  by  the  will 
of  the  testator  two  of  Newhaven  were  joyned  with  two  of  Hartford,  and  yl 
Mr.  Hopkins  had  declared  his  purpose  to  further  the  Colledge  at  Newhaven, 
they  agreed  that  one  half  of  that  estate  w'h  should  be  gathered  in.  should  be 
paid  vnto  Mr.  Davenport  for  Xewhaven,  the  other  half  to  Captain  Cullick  and 
Mr.  Goodwin  to  be  improved  for  the  vses  and  ends  forenoted,  where  they 


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should  have  power  to  perform  their  trust,  w''h  because  they  could  not  expect 
to  have  at  Hartford  they  concluded  it  would  be  best  done  by  them  in  that  new 
plantation  vnto  w:h  sundry  of  Hartford  were  to  remove  and  even  now  gone, 
yet  they  agreed  that  out  of  the  whole  an  1001'  should  be  given  to  the  Colledge 
at  Cambridg  in  the  Bay,  the  estate  being  IGOO11,  as  Captain  Cullick  believed  it 
would  be,  wch  we  now  see  cause  to  doubt,  by  reason  of  the  sequestrations 
laid  upon  that  estate  and  still  continued  by  the  General  Court  at  Hartford, 
wherevpon  some  refuse  to  pay  their  debts  and  then  forsake  the  purchases 
they  had  made,  to  their  great  hinderance  of  performing  the  will  of  the 
deceased  according  to  the  trust  committed  to  them,  and  to  the  endamagement 
of  the  estate." 

The  following  letters,  written  near  the  same  date,  having  reference 
to  the  same  matter  may  best  interpret  themselves. 

1660,  20  d.  of  the  2d  in.  in  the  closing  paragraphs  of  a  letter  to  Gov.  Win- 
throp,  Mr.  Davenport  wrote  as  follows  :  "  The  course  that  the  General  Court 
take  about  Mr.  Hopkins,  his  legacie,  seems  to  me  very  strange,  viz.  :  that 
they  would  know  what  portion  of  it  they  shall  have  and  yet  keep  his  trustees 
from  receiving  what  belongs  to  that  estate  by  sequcstracions  one  after 
another  whereby  the  estate  will  suffer  no  small  loss,  some  being  ready  to 
deliver  up  what  they  had  purchased,  because  they  will  not  have  a  litigious 
title,  and  one  hath  waved  his  bargains  upon  that  account.  Others  who  were 
ready  to  have  paid  what  they  owe  to  the  estate  now  refuse  to  paye,  pretending 
the  Courts  order,  whereby  when  the  sequestration  shall  be  taken  oft',  there  is 
danger  that  through  loss  of  the  season  when  they  were  prepared  to  paye, 
there  will  be  loss  of  the  payment  itself  the  debtours  pleading  their  disabilitie 
now.  And  the  pretence  whereupon  the  sequestraeion  is  the  2:i  time  laid  on  is 
that  the  inventory  is  not  given  in,  whereas  some  of  the  Court  it  seems  knew 
that  it  was  left  with  our  Attorneys  in  Hartford  by  Capt.  Cullick  with  a  trust 
to  be  by  them  presented  to  the  Court  which  they  also  acknowledge  and  take 
the  blame  to  themselves.  But  I  do  not  love  contentions.  We  have  agreed 
in  the  answer  which  I  send  enclosed.  Yours  ever  obliged,  &c. 

JOHN  I)A\  I:\IM )irr." 

The  following  was  enclosed  in  the  foregoing : 

"  HONORED  SIR: 

Captain  Cullick  and  Mr.  Goodwin  have  been  with  me.  by  whom  I  under- 
stand that  some  were  appointed  both  from  the  General  Court  and  from  the 
Towne  of  Hartford  to  know  what  portion  of  Mr.  Hopkins,  his  Estate  (with 
the  disposal  thereof  for  the  ends  specified  in  his  will  we  are  entrusted)  shall 
be  allowed  unto  the  said  Colonie  or  Towne. 

Our  joynt  answer  thereto  is.  that  the  General  Court  be  pleased  to  declare 

1.  That  they  accept  of  that  copie  of  Mr.  Hopkins  his  will  which  is  deliv- 
ered unto  the  Court  already,  as  authentical  and  sufficient  for  the  end  where- 
unto  it  is  produced. 

2.  That  the  said  Court  acknowledges  us  three  to  be  invested  with  power 
by  virtue  of  said  will  to  dispose  of  the  estates  bequeathed  unto  us  according 
to  the  mind  and  intent  of  the  Testator  to  our  best  understanding. 


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3.  That  all  the  seqncstracions,  encumbrances  and  disturbances  whatsoever 
from  the  General  Court  be  so  taken  off,  that  we  may  prosecute  and  settle  the 
business  that  concerns  onr  trust  without  impediment  or  interruption.  These 
things  being  done  to  onr  satisfaction  we  shall  seriously  consider  what  answer 
we  may  give  to  the  praemised  question  according  to  God  and  the  trust  com- 
mitted to  us. 

In  witness  thereof  we  subscribe  our  names  at  Newhaven  the  19th  day  of  the 

2'1  month  in  the  year  1000. 

JOHN  DAVENPORT, 

JOHN  CULLICK, 
WILL.  GOODWIN. 

Indorsed  by  Gov.  Winthrop,  Mr.  D.,  Capt.  C.  and  Mr.  G.  about  the  Hopkins 
legacie."  (Mass.  Hist.  Coll.  IV.  Series,  vol.  VII.  pp.  513,  514.) 

"To  THK  HONORED  COURT  AT  HARTFORD. 
Much  Honored. 

Yours  of  Nov.  10,  1(503,  I  received  and  not  to  trouble  you 
with  my  answer  under  your  second  motions  to  induce  us  to  be  of  your  minds 
my  final  return  to  all  is  this.  That  as  I  have  no  cause,  so  I  do  in  no  sort 
consent  to  that  which  you  were  pleased  to  move  me  unto  but  do  desire  that 
you  yourselves  would  return  the  estate  unto  us,  who  only  have  the  right  to 
dispose  thereof  with  due  satisfaction  for  all  damage  that  shall  appear  to  be 
done  unto  it  since  it  hath  been  taken  out  of  onr  hands,  which  being  timely 
performed,  I  doubt  not  but  the  three  hundred  and  fifty  pounds  tendered  unto 
you  in  February  1061  may  yet  be  settled  upon  Hartford,  on  such  like  conditions 
as  be  therein  expressed  tending  to  the  securing  of  the  estate  from  any 
further  obstructions  by  your  means,  and  ordering  of  the  improvement  of  it 
according  to  the  donor's  end  expressed  in  his  will,  as  our  duty  bindeth  us  to  do. 

Now  hereunto  I  do  humbly  desire  the  Honored  Court  speedily  and  plainly 
to  declare  themselves  to  me  (or  our  attorney)  whether  they  do  now  accept 
of  this  tendery  or  not  without  any  further  agitations  about  the  disposing  of 
it,  which  it  hath  already  been  a  great  wrong  to  the  estate  and  the  donor 
thereof,  as  also  to  us  the  Trustees  and  the  whole  country  besides,  the  which 
if  you  shall  decline  to  do  betwixt  this  and  the  end  of  March  next  ensuing  the 
date  hereof,  this  tendry  also  is  to  be  judged  a  nullity  and  we  shall  forthwith 
endeavor  the  freeing  of  the  estate  elsewhere*  as  the  great  betrustment  com- 
mitted to  us  in  all  respects  considered,  in  duty  bindeth  us  to  do  thus.  Hoping 
and  heartily  wishing  that  you  would  accept  of  my  motion  though  I  cannot 
accept  yours  I  rest  Yours  to  love  and  serve  as  I  may, 

WILLIAM  GOODWIN. 
Hadley,  Feb.  1.  1663." 

(Bacon's  Address,  appendix  0.50). 

Another  letter  of  the  same  date  as  the  foregoing  is  herewith  given. 
"  To  THE  MUCH  HONORED  Gov.  MR.  WIXTHROP  AT  His  HOUSE  IN  HARTFORD, 
PRESENT  THESE  : 

MR.  GOODWIN  TO  JOHN  WINTHROP. 

Honored  Sir. — I  received  a  writing  from  the  honored 
Court  at  Hartford  wherein  they  are  pleased  to  move  me  to  such  a  disposal  of 

*NOTE.    The  English  Court  of  Chancery  is  probably  intended. 


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Mr.  Hopkins  trust  committed  to  us  the  Trustees,  as  we  cannot  consent  vnto, 
I  have  sent  by  the  same  hand  which  bringeth  this  unto  your  worship  my 
answer  therevnto ;  and  the  which  I  do  desire  may  be  a  fynale  issue  of  these 
agitations  between  vs  and  the  Honored  Court  which  have  been  very  prejudi- 
cial to  that  pious  act  of  the  worthy  donor  as  also  to  vs  the  Trustees  and 
almost  all  the  country  besides,  by  thus  long  and  without  cause  detaining  the 
estate  from  vs  who  only  have  right  to  dispose  thereof  and  thereby  hindering 
the  vseful  improvement  of  the  same  for  the  glory  of  God  and  the  good  of 
His  people. 

They  are  pleased  to  speak  much  of  vnity,  peace,  love  and  friendship 
between  yourselves  and  us.  I  conceive  that  this  which  I  do  now  offer  to  the 
Court  is  a  nearer  way  to  attain  to  that  than  that  which  is  propounded  by 
thern  to  me  and  also  be  for  the  prevention  of  further  trouble  which  is  not  like 
to  be  avoided,  for  we  ought  not  in  duty  to  the  estate  and  the  worthy  donor 
thereof,  but  forthwith  vse  our  utmost  endeavor  to  free  the  same,  that  it  may 
be  vnder  the  improvement  the  worthy  donor  bequeathed  it  vnto. 

Thus,  Worthy  Sir  I  commit  you  and  all  my  good  friends  with  you  to  the 
holy  guidance  and  blessing  of  heaven  and  rest  yours  most  willing  to  live  the 
little  remainder  of  my  few  days  in  love  and  peace  with  you  all. 

WILL.  GOODWIN. 
HADLKY,  Feb.  1,  '63. 
Endorsed  l>y  John  Winthrop  jun. 
Mr.  Goodwin  Rec'd  Feb.  9.  ir»i;.V 

(Mass.  Hist,  Coll.  Vol.  VIII,  4th  Series,  pp.  60,  51.) 

During  the  year  1(563,  when  Gov.  Winthrop  was  in  England,  Mr. 
Dalley,  the  executor  of  Gov.  Hopkins'  will,  "  dealt  with  him"  for  the 
restraint  put  upon  the  estate,  and  the  Governor  promised  that  on  his 
return  it  should  be  set  at  liberty.  Mr.  Winthrop  came  over  in  1663, 
and  Oct.  8th  of  that  year,  the  Court  appointed  the  Governor  (Winthrop) , 
Mr.  Matthew  Allyn,  Mr.  Wyllys  and  Capt.  Talcott,  or  any  three  of 
them,  to  consider  what  is  next  to  be  attended  in  reference  to  Mr. 
Hopkins  and  his  estate,  by  him  bequeathed  for  to  be  improved  for  the 
promotion  of  learning  and  to  make  report  of  their  thoughts  at  the 
next  Court. 

Their  thoughts  found  expression  in  the  record  of  the  Court  1663-4, 
March  10th.  4t  This  Court,  upon  good  advice,  do  wee  cause  to  take  off 
the  sequestration  formerly  laid  upon  the  estate  of  Edward  Hopkins, 
Esq.,  which  for  several  good  reasons  was  laid  under  restraint,  partly 
because  an  authentic  copy  of  the  will  of  the  said  Edward  Hopkins  did 
not  appear  for  the  orderly  discharge  thereof,  and  partly  because  an 
attested  inventory  of  the  will  of  the  said  estate  hath  not  as  yet  been 
exhibited  into  this  Court,  yet  it  now  being  hopeless  because  of  the 
decease  of  Capt.  John  Cullick  to  obtain  such  inventory,  This  Court 
doth  order  as  before  mentioned." 


-2;') 

The  subject  is  not  Mgiiin  introduced  in  the  records  of  the  General 
Court,  but  in  the  records  of  the  Government  Council,  under  date  Jan. 
13,  1664-5,  we  find  the  following  order  :  "  This  Council  doth  hereby 
declare  that  the  estate  of  our  honored  friend,  Edward  Hopkins,  Esq., 
shall  not  be  molested  by  sequestering  in  behalf  of  the  country." 

April  28,  1  ('.(It,  Mr.  Davenport  tendered  Gov.  Hopkins'  donation  to 
the  town  of  New  Haven  in  a  paper  reciting  the  difficulty  and  embar- 
rassment of  the  Trustees  by  reason  of  the  restraint  laid  upon  the 
estate.  Now  Mr.  Winthrop  has  returned  from  England  and  his 
promise  made  to  Mr.  Dally  has  just  now  been  made  good,  and  at 
length  the  estate  is  free.  "  He  further  stated  that  though  the  estate 
was  something  damnified,  yet  it  is  thought  that  when  all  is  paid  there 
will  be  a  thousand  pounds  in  the  whole,  of  which  Hartford  had  gained 
four  hundred  for  a  school — now  the  rest  was  in  their  trust  and  he  bad 
writ  to  Mr.  Goodwin  about  it  and  he  thought  it  was  meet  New  Haven 
should  have  more  than  Hadley  and  so  Mr.  Goodwin  agreed  to  pay  the 
one  hundred  pounds  out  of  his  part  to  the  college  in  the  Bay  which 
they  had  purposed  before  to  give  it."  (Bacon's  Discourse,  Appendix, 
p.  53.) 

In  this  partition  Hertford  receives  a  sum  larger  than  had  been 
named  in  the  former  tendry,  sharing  equally  with  New  Haven,  and  by 
Mr.  Goodwin's  own  suggestion,  the  hundred  pounds  paid  to  Har- 
vard College  should  be  taken  from  Hartley's  share. 

THE  FINAL  SETTLEMENT  OF  THE  ESTATE. 

The  estate  after  such  long  and  annoying  delay  is  set  free.  The 
two  surviving  Trustees,  Davenport  and  Goodwin,  proceed  to  divide  it 
among  the  three  towns,  New  Haven,  Hartford  and  Hadley.  But  for 
the  troubles  in  Hartford  church  the  fund  would  have  been  shared 
equally  by  New  Haven  and  Hartford.  This  distribution  was  made  in 
writing  and  is  preserved  in  two  papers,  the  same  in  substance,  though 
some  particulars  found  in  one  are  wanting  in  the  other. 

One  of  these  papers*  is  found  in  the  Records  of  the  Hopkins  Gram- 
mar School  in  New  Haven,  entitled  : 

The    Agreement    Between    Mr.  Davenport   and    Mr.    Goodivin    about 

Disposing  Mr.  Hopkins  /u'.s   Estate. 

The  closing  paragraph  is  this  :  "  Hereunto,  as  to  our  last  order,  dispose 
and  determination  touching  the  said  estate,  we  have  set  our  hands  and  seals 

*Copies  of  both  papers  are  in  the  Judd  collection  with  J.  R.  Trumbull,  Esq. 
4 


2(5 

in  several  instruments  before  witnesses,  the  far  distances  of  our  habitations 
and  our  unfitness  for  such  a  journey  denying  us  opportunity  of  a  joint  action 
otherwise  than  by  writing.  Therefore  with  mutual  consent  we  thus  declare 
our  agreement.  I  the  said  Win.  Goodwin  do  sign  and  seal  this  instrument  as 
my  true  agreement  for  Mr.  John  Davenport  of  New  Haven. 

WAI.  GOODWIN.     [Seal] 
The  13th  day  of  the  4th  Month,  1664:. 
Signed  and  sealed  in  the  presence  of  us  HENRY  CLARK, 

WM.  WESTWOOP. 

On  the  records  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  is  found  the 
following  paper,  differing  as  already  noted  from  the  foregoing,  copied 
from  the  manuscript  among  the  papers  of  the  late  Sylvester  .ludd  in 
the  keeping  of  J.  R.  Trambull,  Esq. 

Messrs.  Darenport  and  Goodwin's  Agreement,  April  30,  1664. 

"  Be  it  known  unto  all  men,  that  whereas  the  worshipful  Edward  Hopkins 
Esq.  a  faithful  servant  of  the  Lord,  and  our  honored  friend,  hath  by  his  last 
will  and  testament  (which  is  proved  according  to  law  in  England,  and  demon- 
stration thereof  made  to  the  General  Court  at  Hartford  in  New  England) 
, given  and  bequeathed  all  his  estate  in  New  England,  his  debts  and  legacies 
there  being  first  paid  out  of  the  same ;  together  with  £500  that  are  to  come 
f,om  Old  England  after  the  decetii-e  of  Mrs.  Hopkins:  unto  Theophilus  Eaton  Esq. 
John  Davenport  Senr.  Pastor  of  the  Church  of  Christ  in  New  Haven,  Capt. 
John  Cullick  and  Mr.  Wm.  Goodwin  sometime  of  Hartford,  since  of  Boston 
and  Hadley  in  the  Colony  of  the  Massachusetts  in  New  England;  confiding 
in  their  faithfulness  for  their  improvement  of  the  same  towards  the  education 
of  youth  in  good  literature  for  the  service  of  Christ  in  these  foreign  parts. 
We  therefore  the  said  John  Davenport  and  William  Goodwin  (being  the  only 
survivors  of  the  said  Trustees)  for  answering  the  trust  committed  to  us  by 
the  last  will  and  testament  of  our  worthy  honored  friend,  do  order  and 
dispose  of  the  said  estate  as  follows  viz. 

The  debts  and  legacie  being  paid,  we  do  give  to  the  town  of  Hartford  the 
sum  of  400£  of  which  Hills  his  farm  shall  be  a  part,  at  the  price  at  which  it  was 
sold  by  us,  and  payment  ready  to  be  delivered  if  there  had  been  no  interrup- 
tion, the  rest  of  the  400£  in  such  debts  or  goods  as  we  or  our  agents  see  meet, 
provided  that  this  gift  be  improved  according  to  the  true  intent  of  the  donor 
(viz  for  or  towards  the  erecting  and  promoting  of  a  grammar  school  at  Hart- 
ford. Provided  also  that  the  General  Court  at  Connecticut  do  grant  and  give 
to  us  the  said  Trustees  a  writing  legally  confirmed  so  that  neither  themselves 
will,  nor  any  by  from,  or  under  them  shall  disturb  or  hinder  us  in  our  dispose, 
or  executing  our  dispose  of  the  rest  of  the  estate,  which  being  done  this  gift 
is  in  all  respects  valid.  We  do  also  desire  and  request  that  the  school  house 
may  be  set  upon  the  house  lot  which  was  lately  in  the  occupation  of  Jeremy 
Adams,  where  our  worthy  friend  did  much  desire  that  a  school  might  be  set. 
Further  our  desire  is,  that  the  management  of  the  said  estate  at  Hartford 
may  be  in  the  hands  of  Dea.  Edward  Stebbing.  Lt.  Thomas  Hull  and  their 
assigns. 


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We  do  further  order  and  appoint  that  the  rest  of  Mr.  Hopkins  his  estate, 
both  that  which  is  in  Neio  England  and  the  500£  which  is  to  come  from  Old  Eng- 
land when  it  shall  become  due  to  us,  after  Mrs.  Hopkins  her  decease  be  all  of  it 
equally  divided  between  the  towns  of  Newhaven  and  Hadley,  to  be  in  each  of 
those  towns  respectively  managed  and  improved  towards  the  erecting  and 
maintaining  of  a  Grammar  School  in  each  of  them.  And  the  management 
thereof  to  be  in  the  hands  of  our  assigns,  which  are  for  that  at  New  Haven 
for  the  present  and  so  to  continue  (except  some  other  way  may  be  by  us 
agreed  on)  the  Town  Court  of  New  Haven,  consisting  of  magistrates  and 
deputies,  and  the  officers  of  the  church  at  Newrhaven.  And  for  that  at  Hadley 
John  RussellJun.  Pastor  of  the  church  of  Christ  at  Hadley,  Lt.  Samuel  Smith, 
Andrew  Bacon  and  Peter  Tilton.  These  we  the  said  John  Davenport  and 
William  Goodwin  do  appoint,  and  constitute  to  be  our  Trustees,  for  ordering 
the  said  estate  and  carrying  on  the  work,  wherein  it  is  to  be  employed  each 
in  their  several  towns  respectively. 

Hereby  committing  to  them  and  investing  them  with  full  power  to  act  in 
the  same  in  their  several  towns  respectively;  in  all  respects  as  ourselves, 
both  in  managing  this  trust  themselves  and  in  choosing  successors  from  time 
to  time,  as  they  shall. see  meet,  who,  or  the  major  part  of  whom,  or  (in  case 
at  any  time  the  Rest  of  the  Trustees  be  taken  away  before  others  be  chosen) 
any  of  whom  may  and  shall  have  full  power  to  perfect  and  put  in  execution 
the  pious  end  and  intendment  of  the  worthy  donor,  yet  reserving  to  ourselves 
while  we  live,  the  full  power  of  a  negative  vote  for  the  hindering  of  anything 
that  may  cross  that  end.  Only  provided  that  one  hundred  pounds  shall  be 
given  and  paid  to  Harvard  College  out  of  that  half  of  the  estate  which  Hadley 
hath*,  which  also  is  'to  be  ordered  as  we  or  our  assigns  shall  judge  most 
conducible  to  the  end  intended  by  the  donor. 

Hereunto  as  to  our  last  order,  dispose  and  determination  we  have  set  our 
hands  and  seals. 

Signed  and  sealed  by  William  Goodwin  at 

Hadley   April  30th    1664   in   presence  of        WILLIAM  GOODWIN  and  Seal. 
Henry  Clark  and  Nathaniel  Dickinson  Sen1' 
And   at   New   Haven  by  the   Rev.    John 

Davenport  Sen.  8th  3d,  1664  in  presence  of        JOHN  DAVENPORT  Senr  and* Seal. 
William  Jones  and  John  Davenport  Jun. 

This  is  a  true  copy  of  the  Instru- 
ment made  by  Mr.  Davenport  and 
Mr.  Goodwin  for  the  disposition  of 
Mr.  Hopkins  his  estate  committed 
to  them. 

HENRY  CLARK, 

Constable  and  Commissioner. 
Sept.  23  1672. 


*NOTE. — It  was  at  the  suggestion  of  Mr.  Goodwin  that  the  one  hundred  pounds  to  be 
paid  to  Harvard  College  should  come  from  Hartley's  part  in  the  division.  It  is  worthy  of 
note,  likewise,  that  £400  were  assigned  to  Hartford,  while  it  was  not  vet  sure  that  the  value 
of  the  estate  would  reach  £1200.  Is  not  this  spirit  magnanimous:' 


CHAPTER  IV. 


THE  FUND  AT  HADLEY. 

To  the  part  of  the  fund  (arising  from  the  Hopkins  legacy,  as  before 
related)  assigned  to  Hadley,  additions  were  made  from  time  to  time 
by  several  individual  donors,  and  by  the  Town  of  Hadley.  One  of 
these,  John  Barnard,  removed  from  Cambridge  to  Hartford,  was  one 
of  the  first  settlers  of  Hadley,  where  he  was  buried  May  23,  1664. 
He  must  have  been  acquainted  with  Gov.  Hopkins  and  Mr.  Goodwin. 
He  had  been  with  them  in  the  church  at  Hartford.  Moved  by  a 
common  impulse  he  and  Mr.  Goodwin  had  come  hither  to  lay  founda- 
tions for  many  generations. 

In  his  will,  bearing  date  May  21,  1664,  shortly  after  the  foregoing 
agreement  of  Mr.  Goodwin  and  Mr.  Davenport,  occur  the  words  that 
follow,  as  copied  in  the  records  of  Hopkins  Academy,  from  the  orig- 
inal in  the  Probate  office  at  Northampton. 

JOHN  BARNARD'S   BEQUEST,  MAY  21,  1664. 

John  Barnard  hath  bequeathed  and  given  in  his  last  Will  and  Testament 
unto  the  Town  of  Hadley  in  Hampshire,  for  promoting  and  advancement  of 
a  school  for  learning,  twelve  acres,  one  rood  and  nine  pole  of  meadow  land, 
perpetually  to  be  and  remain  to  the  use  aforesaid,  lying  within  the  bounds  of 
the  township  of  Hadley. 

Six  acres,  two  roods  and  twenty-nine  poles  lying  in  the  meadow  called 
Hockanum,  bounded  by  Mr.  Wm  Goodwins  land,  north  east,  Francis  Barnards 
land,  south  west,  abutting  on  the  river,  north  west  and  the  swamp  south  east. 
Another  parcel  in  the  meadow,  called  the  great  meadow,  containing  five  acres, 
two  roods  and  twenty  poles ;  bounded  by  the  land  of  Phillip  Smith  east  and 
William  Partridge  west,  abutting  on  the  highway  north,  and  the  adjoining 
furlong  south. 

By  the  same  supposed  to  be  in  a  codicil  May  21,  16(54. 

John  Barnard,  I  do  give  (viz.)  to  the  use  and  toward  the  maintenance  of  a 
school,  I  give  perpetually  my  piece  of  land  lying  in  the  Forlorn ;  as  also  my 
piece  of  land  that  lies  in  Hockanum,  and  also  that  land  I  have  given  to  a 
school  if  there  be  not  a  school  in  Hadley  at  the  decease  of  my  wife,  then  the 
land  to  be  improved  by  four  of  the  poorest  men  in  town  till  there  be  a  school 
set  up. 


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Another  donor  was  Nathaniel  Ward,  an  early  settler  of  Hartford, 
a  gentleman  of  good  standing,  in  the  colony  of  Connecticut.  He  was 
among  the  first  that  came  to  Hadley,  where  he  was  made  freeman 
March  26,  1661.  He  was  buried  June  1,  1664.  He  is  called  Good- 
man Ward.  At  his  house  in  Hartford  "the  engagers"  met,  April 
18,  1651),  and  engaged  themselves  under  their  own  hands,  or  by  their 
deputies  whom  they  had  chosen,  to  remove  themselves  and  their  fam- 
ilies out  of  the  jurisdiction  of  Connecticut  into  the  jurisdiction  of 
Massachusetts.  He  died  childless.  His  will  is  dated  May  27,  1664, 
just  after  the  Hopkins  estate  was  set  at  liberty.  He  gave  a  piece  of 
his  home  lot,  on  the  street,  with  his  house,  for  the  use  of  the  school. 
A  part  of  this  building  was  used  for  many  years  as  a  school  house. 
From  a  vote  of  the  town  March  30,1709-10,  it  appears  that  an 
appendage  to  this  house,  an  outhouse  is  "  ready  to  fall  down."  The 
spot  is  the  site  of  the  present  residence  of  Mr.  L.  S.  Crosier. 

This  gift  was  made  near  the  time  of  the  agreement  of  Davenport 
and  Goodwin,  before  any  school  was  established  in  Hadley,  and  yet 
it  is  by  no  means  improbable  that  such  a  prospect  was  in  his  mind. 

The  extract  from  his  will  conveying  this  gift  is  herewith  given : 

MR.  WARD'S  GIFT,  MAY  27,   1064. 

"  Nathaniel  Ward.  Item  to  the  town  of  Hadley  I  give  after  the  decease  of 
my  wife,  my  now  dwelling  house  with  ab^ut  five  roods  or  an  acre  and  a  half 
of  land  on  which  it  standeth,  and  my  lot  of  five  acres  more  or  less  in  the  north 
meadow  and  my  lot  in  Hockanum  containing  nine  acres  more  or  less,  to  be 
improved  toward  maintaining  a  school  ever.  Provided  that  whereas  I  have 
taken  up  twelve  or  thirteen  pounds'  of  the  estate  of  Mr.  Hopkins  if  any  of 
that  be  by  me  to  be  repaid  it  shall  be  out  of  the  estate  given  by  me  to  the  town." 

Another  benefactor  of  the  school  was  Mr.  Henry  Clark,  Windsor 
1640,  representative  1641-1650,  Assistant  1650-1651,  a  first  settler  of 
Hadley,  a  wealthy  and  distinguished  man.  He  was  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners for  holding  the  courts  at  Springfield  and  Northampton,  (Asso- 
ciates as  they  were  called  after  1669)  from  1663-1676.  He  dieds.  p. 
Dec.  23,  1675. 

There  is  reason  to  think  that  he  was  intimately  acquainted  with  Wm. 
Goodwin,  shared  his  confidence  and  his  views  in  matters  of  education, 
especially  as  related  to  Hopkins  school,  which  at  the  time  of  his  death 
had  begun  its  work  and  which  it  was  in  his  mind  to  promote  by  this 
bequest. 

April  30th,  1664,  he  witnessed  the  paper  signed  by  Davenport  and 
Goodwin,  directing  the  disposition  of  the  legacy  of  Governor  Hopkins, 
dividing  it  between  Hartford,  New  Haven  and  Hadley. 


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Here  is  given  out  of  strict  chronological  order  Henry  Clark's  dona- 
tion, Dec.  15,  1675,  more  than  ten  years  later  than  the  two  other  gifts 
already  mentioned,  and  after  the  Hopkins  school  began  its  work. 

"  I  do  give  my  nine  acre  lot  in  Hockanum  in  the  town  of  Hadley  and  two 
acres  and  a  half  of  my  lot  in  the  lower  end  of  the  great  meadow,  in  Hadley, 
on  the  nether  side  of  the  lot,  I  give  to  the  town  of  Hadley,  committing  it  to 
the  care,  disposing  and  ordering  of  Lieut.  Samuel  Smith,  Ensign  Cook,  Dea. 
Tilton,  and  Mr.  John  Russell,  Jr.,  to  be  by  them  disposed  of,  (in  case  they 
quietly  keep  and  remain  in  their  committeeship  for  Hopkins  school)  unto 
Hopkins  School  for  Hadley.  But  if  they  be  put  out  of,  or  disturbed  in  that 
committeeship — then  to  be  otherwise  disposed  of,  as  they  or  the  survivors  of 
them,  see  meet  for  the  good  of  the  town."  (Record  of  Hopkins  Academy.) 

It  is  worthy  of  record  that  John  Barnard,  Nathaniel  Ward  and 
Henry  Clark,  who  left  something  from  their  estates  (about  forty  acres 
of  land  in  all)  for  a  school,  was  each  of  them  without  children,  like 
Gov.  Hopkins  himself,  whom  they  had  known  and  whose  spirit  they 
seem  to  have  caught.  They  made  the  children  of  others,  in  long 
succession,  their  heirs,  thus  furnishing  a  worthy  example,  which  since 
their  time  none  have  been  found  to  copy  in  the  matter  of  gifts  to  this 
school.  Is  it  too  much  to  hope  that  some  such  may  yet  appear  after 
so  long  a  time  ?* 

The  town  of  Hadley  made  grants  of  land  from  time  to  time  to  and 
for  the  use  of  a  Grammar  school — as  appears  from  votes  in  the  town 
records  as  given  herewith. 

JANUARY    14,   Hifiti. 

"The  town  have  granted  to  and  for  the  use  of  a  (iraminar  Scoole  in  this 
town  of  Hadley  and  to  be  and  remain  perpetuallie  to  and  for  the  use  of  said 
Scoole  the  two  little  meddowes  next  beyond  the  Brooke  commonlie  called  the 
mm  Brooke  and  as  much  upland  to  be  laid  to  the  same  -as  the  comittee 
chosen  by  the  town  shall  in  their  discretion  see  rneeteand  need ful  provided 
withall  it  be  left  to  the  Judgment  of  the  said  Committee  that  so  much  of  the 
2nd  meddow  shall  be  excepted  from  said  grant  as  that  there  may  be  a  rt'ezuble 
and  convenient  passage  for  cattel  to  their  ft'eede." 

The  committee,  chosen  for  the  occasion  aforesaid,  are  Mr.  Clark, 
Lieut.  Smith,  William  Allis,  Nathaniel  Dickinson  and  Andrew  Warner. 
This  meadow  tract  contained  sixty  acres,  more  or  less,  with  consider- 
able upland,  bounded  north  and  west  by  the  great  river,  and  by  the 
fence  south  and  east. 


*Dea.  Geo.  Dickinson  who  died  Aug.  10,  1889,  left  in  his  will  *-20<)  to  the  Trustees  of 
Hopkins  Academy  in  trust  for  the  benelit  of  the  young  men's  Library  Association,  and 
in  case  that  Association  should  cease  to  exist,  to  be  employed  for  the  benefit  of  ilopkins 
Academy  and  library. 


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Marginal  note  by  Peter  Tillon.  These  meadows  are  the  round  neck 
of  land  and  the  little  long  meadow  that  was  reserved  by  the  Indians 
in  the  first  sale  and  afterwards  purchased  by  itself. 

(Original  Town  Record,  p.  40.) 

THE  TOWN  OF  HADLEY'S  GRANT,  OCT.   16,  1671. 

"  The  town  have  granted  a  piece  of  land  ,near  the  corn  mill  for  the  erecting 
and  setting  a  dwelling  house  upon  the  same  (for  the  use  of  a  miller)  with  this 
proviso  that  whatever  laud  or  estate,  with  the  said  house  and  mill,  £c.  that 
hath  been  given  by  the  Town  of  Hadley  or  by  any  other,  for  the  maintaining 
of  a  Grammar  Scoole  there  be  ordered,  managed  and  disposed  by  the  present 
school  committee  in  being  and  after  them  by  their  successors  whom  they 
shall  chuse,  provided  they  be  still  pious  discreete  flaithful  men,  otherwise  the 
said  grant  to  be  void  and  Invalid  to  the  ends  and  purposes  aforesaid."  See 
Town  Record. 

A  true  copy  compared  with  the  original  this  present  8th  of  Oct.  by  us. 

JOHN  RUSSELL,  AAHON  COOKK. 

The  above  preserved  in  the  Record  of  Hopkins  Academy. 

June  3,  KITH,  the  town  voted  and  granted  a  parcel  of  ground 
adjoining  to  the  mill  perpetually  as  a  house  lot  for  the  miller,  not 
exceeding  four  acres,  to  be  laid  out  by  the  committee  appointed  for 
the  purpose. 

Gifts  for  the  School  which  became  its  Fund  were  seven  in  number, 
and  all  made  during  the  fourteen  years,  from  1664  to  1678.  They 
were  these  : 

1.     By  Davenport  and  Goodwin  from  the  Hopkins  estate  in  1664. 

'1.     By  John  Barnard  in  1664. 

3.  By  Nathaniel  Ward  in  1664. 

4.  By  the  Town  in  1666. 
/>.     By  the  Town  in  1671. 

6.  By  Mr.  Clarke  in  1(57."). 

7.  By  the  Town  in  167H. 

All  these  gifts  were  made  within  twenty  years  after  the  settlement 
of  the  Town.  In  the  order  of  time  they  followed  the  lead  of  the 
Hopkins  donation  and  seem  both  in  intention  and  in  fact  to  have 
constituted  one  fund  and  under  one  management,  though  somewhat 
vaguely  and  loosely  defined. 

TOWN    VOTE,  MARCH  14,  1666-7. 

"The  town  have  voted  Mr.  Clark,  Lieut.  Smith,  Nathaniel  Dickinson, 
Andrew  Warner  and  William  Allis  a  committee  for  and  in  behalf  of  the  town 
to  order,  dispose,  set  and  lett  according  to  their  best  judgment  and  discretion 
the  parcels  of  land  lying  about  the  mill  brook,  granted  and  given  to  and  for 
the  use  of  a  Grammar  scoole  in  this  town  of  Hadley  and  for  the  advantage  of 
the  same." 


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At  this  time  the  school  had  begun  its  course,  under  the  direction  of 
Mr.  Goodwin  with  such  counsel  as  he  was  inclined  to  receive  from  the 
others  named  in  the  agreement,  to  act  with  him.  It  is  likely  that  he 
had  in  his  mind  his  own  retirement  from  such  direction  and  control 
and  his  removal  from  town,  and  wishing  to  see  the  school  and  its 
affairs  settled  on  a  secure  and  durable  footing,  he  made  the  following 
proposal  to  the  town  : 

MR.  GOODWIN'S  PROPOSAL  TO  THE  TOWN,  MARCH  20,  1668-9. 

"Mr.  Goodwin  proposes  as  that  wherein  he  is  willing  to  concur  (viz)  that  as 
to  the  ordering  of  that  estate,  distributed  and  given  by  Mr.  Davenport  and 
himself  (as  trustees  to  Mr.  Hopkins)  to  the  town  of  Hadley,  tlonour  of  the 
said  estate  both  for  the  present  and  the  ffuture ;  he  the  said  Mr.  William 
Goodwin  hath  chosen  three  persons  (or  will  chuse  them)  to  have  power  in  the 
premises.  He  is  willing  allsoe  that  the  town  should  give  their  aprobation  of 
the  said  persons.  As  allsoe  that  the  town  shall  make  choice  of  two  more  able 
and  pious  men  which  ffive  persons  together  with  himself  shall  have  the  sole 
and  ftull  dispose  and  management  of  the  estate  above  expressed,  in  all  respects 
for  the  end  to  which  it  is  bequeathed. 

2nd.  As  allsoe  the  said  five  persons  together  with  himself  while  he  liveth 
shall  have  the  sole  dispose  and  management  of  all  other  estate  and  estates 
given  by  any  donor  or  that  may  be  ichilest  they  survive  to  this  town  of  Had- 
ley for  the  promotion  of  literature  or  learning. 

3rd.  Those  fflve  persons  to  continue,  abide  and  remaine  in  the  work  above 
expressed  till  death,  or  other  Providence  of  God  remove  any  of  them  and  the 
surviving  to  chuse  to  themselves  the  full  number  aforesd. 

4th.  Mr.  Goodwin  desires  the  name  of  the  Scoole  may  be  called  Hopkins 
Scoole." 

TOWN  VOTES  IN  ANSWER  TO  THE  ABOVE,  MARCH,  26,  1669. 

"Mr.  Goodwin  being  sent  to  by  the  town  to  know  the  persons  he  would 
make  choice  of,  as  respecting  the  premises,  he  returns  he  had  chosen  Mr. 
John  Russell,  pastour  of  the  church  at  Hadley,  Left.  Samuel  Smith  and 
Aaron  Cooke.  The  'town  voted  their  aprobation  of  Mr.  Goodwins  choice. 
The  Town  allsoe  voted  Nathaniel  Dickinson  Senr,  and  Peter  Tilton  to  Joyne 
with  the  three  persons  before  mentioned  as  a  Joint  committee  who  with  Mr. 
Goodwin  while  he  lives,  and  after  his  decease  shall  Jointly  and  together  have 
the  ordering  and  Hull  dispose,  of  the  estate  or  estates  given  by  Mr.  Davenport 
and  Mr.  Goodwin  (as  trustees  as  aforesaid  to  Mr.  Edward  Hopkins)  to  this 
town  of  Hadley,  or  any  other  estate  or  estates  that  are  or  may  be  given  by 
the  town  itself  or  any  other  donour  or  donours,  ft'or  the  use,  benefit  and 
maintenance  and  promoting  of  a  Gramar  Scoole  to  and  ft'or  the  use  and  in  this 
town  of  Hadley.  As  allsoe  Jointly  and  together  to  doe,  act  and  conclude  and 
execute  and  fflnish  anything  respecting  the  premises  ffaithfullye  according  to 
their  best  discretion. 


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Voted  Allsoe  by  the  town  that  as  to  the  flive  persons  before  expressed,  if 
any  decease,  or  be  otherwise  disabled  through  the  1'rovidence  of  God,  the 
rest  surviveing  shall  have  the  sole  choice  of  any  in  the  rooine  and  place  of 
those  surceasing,  to  the  full  number  of  five  persons,  provided  they  be  known, 
discreet,  pious,  faithful  persons. 

The  Town  hath  ordered  Mr.  Clarke  and  Peter  Tilton  to  present  the  premises 
to  the  court  to  be  recorded." 

(The  above  is  from  the  original  town  record,  p.  44.) 

"  A  true  copy  compared  with  the  original  by  us, 

JOHN  RUSSELL  and  AAUON  COOKE." 

The  above  note  is  appended  to  a  copy  taken  by  the  above  mimed, 
and  preserved  in  the  records  of  Hopkins  Academy. 

AGREEMENT  BETWEEN  MR.  GOQDWIN  AND  THE  TOWN  AS 

PRESENTED  TO  THE  COURT  MARCH  30,  1(><>9.* 

Whereas  John  Davenport  Sen.  Sometime  of  New  Haven,  now  of  Boston, 
in  the  colony  of  Massachusetts ;  and  Mr.  William  Goodwin  of  Hadley  in 
Hampshire,  in  the  same  colony ;  the  only  surviving  Trustees  to  and  for  that 
part  of  the  estate  of  Edward  Hopkins  Esq.  given  and  bequeathed  by  that 
worthy  and  much  honored  donor,  in  his  last  will  and  testament;  for  and  to 
the  promoting  and  advancing  of  literature  or  learning  in  these  parts  of  America 
called  New  England  as  his  said  trustees  authorized  and  empowered  by  his  las^ 
will  and  testament  or  those  surviving  of  them,  should,  according  to  their 
discretion,  care  and  faithfulness,  see  cause  to  order  and  dispose,  the  above- 
said  Mr.  John  Davenport  and  Mr.  William  Goodwin,  making  a  clear  and 
absolute  gift  and  disposal,  of  a  considerable  sum,  or  part  of  said  estate,  to 
the  town  of  Hadley  in  Hampshire,  in  the  colony  aforesaid;  for  and  to  the  end 
and  use  above  expressed  (viz)  for  the  erecting  and  maintaining  of  a  Grammar 
School,  as  by  an  instrument  jointly  sealed  and  subscribed,  by  the  said 
Trustees  appears:  the  said  sum  amounting  to  about  three  hundred  pounds, as 
also  two  hundred  and  fifty  ponnds  more  ordered  and  given  by  the  Trustees 
to  the  Town  of  Hadley  fit  the  decease  of  Mrs.  Hopkins,  And  whereas  the 
said  Trustees  have  by  both  their  assents  constituted  a  committee  of  four 
persons,  chosen  by  Mr.  William  Goodwin  as  respecting  the  estate  as  above 
expressed  given  and  disposed  to  the  town  of  Hadley ;  -  for  the  ordering  and 
managing  the  same  for  the  end  aforesaid.  Two  of  the  said  persons  not 
accepting  the  said  trust,  the  aforesaid  Mr.  William  Goodwin  in  consulting 
with  the  said  Town,  about  the  further  choice  of  persons  upon  whom  the 
management  of  the  above  estate  might  be  perpetually  settled,  and  the  will  of 
the  honored  donor  in  all  respects  fulfilled.  He  acted  in  and  about  the  same 
with  the  town  as  follows,  viz.  Mr.  William  Goodwin  hath  made  choice  of 
three  persons  to  the  end  aforesaid,  viz.  Mr.  John  Russell  Jim.,  Samuel  Smith 
and  Aaron  Cook  Jim.  of  whom  the  town  have  voted  their  approbation.  The 
town  also  made  choice  of  two  persons,  viz.  Nathaniel  Dickinson  Sen.  and 

*NOTE.— At  a  Count}-  Corte  hokleu  at  Northampton  yc  ;>0th  day  of  ye  1st  month  l»i(!9,  the 
affairs  of  the  School  were  presented,  and  these  papers  ordered  entrance  at  lemrtheon  the 
record  with  warm  approval  "  in  perpetuum  rei  memoriani.  "  (Court  Record  in  Probate 
Office,  pp.  205,  206.) 

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Peter  Tilton,  which  five  persons  viz.  Mr.  John  Russell  Jim.  Samuel  Smith, 
Aaron  Cook  Jun.,  Nathaniel  Dickinson  and  Peter  Tilton  shall  be  and  are  a 
joint  Committee  authorized  and  empowered  clearly  to  act  and  jointly  and 
together  as  also  with  the  said  Mr.  William  Goodwin  while  he  lives,  and  after 
his  decease,  having  full  power,  jointly  and  together,  to  order  and  appoint, 
dispose,  manage,  act,  finish  and  conclude  according  to  their  discretion,  care, 
and  faithfulness,  anything  in  respect  to  the  premises;  and  for  the  benefit, 
furtherance,  and  advancement  of  the  end  or  ends  before  mentioned,  intended 
and  expressed,  by  the  worthy  donor  of  the  said  estate,  and  likewise,  by  the 
Trustees  in  the  gift  of  the  same  to  the  said  tow^n  of  Hadley. 

Also  the  said  Committee  of  five  persons  above  expressed,  shall  have  full 
power  and  authority,  jointly  and  together  to  order,  dispose  and  manage,  any 
other  estate  or  estates  given  and  bequeathed  to  the  town  of  Hadley ;  either 
by  the  toion  itself,  or  by  any  other  donor,  or  donors  or  that  may  or  shall  be  given, 
to  the  use  and  benefit,  promoting  and  advancement  of  the  school  aforesaid, 
and  learning  for  and  in  the  town  of  Hadley. 

The  town  hath  ordered,  that  the  five  persons  before  mentioned  surviving 
Mr.  Goodwin,  if  any  of  them  shall  decease,  or  otherwise  be  disabled,  the 
remaining  persons  of  the  said  Committee  shall  have  the  sole  choice  of  other 
or  others  in  their  room  or  place  still  continuing  the  number  of  five,  provided 
their  choice  be  of  known  discreet,  pious,  faithful  persons." 

Wm.  Goodwin,  who  has  been  so  prominent  in  this  history,  now  ceases 
to  be  active  in  these  matters.  He  was,  as  has  been  seen,  elder  in  the 
church  at  Newtown,  afterward  at  Hartford,  and  still  later  at  Hadley. 
After  him  neither  of  those  churches  had  another  ruling  elder.  After  a 
residence  of  ten  years  at  Hadley  he  removed,  about  1670  to  Farm- 
ington,  Conn.,  where  he  died  March  11,  1673* 

In  1672,  Sept.  24th,  at  the  County  Court  held  in  Springfield,  he  was 
plaintiff  in  an  action  agt.  Peter  Tilton  Defdt.  Thus  runs  the  record  : 

"Mr.  William  Goodwin  late  of  Hadley  Plaintiff  contra  Peter  Tilton  of 
Hadley  defdt  in  action  for  the  case  for  intruding  himself  upon  the  committee- 
ship  about  ye  estate  of  Edward  Hopkins  Esq.  (improved  in  Hadley)  upon  the 
schoole  contrary  to  the  mind  of  the  said  Mr.  Goodwin  Trustee  to  the  sd 
estate.  Also  ye  sd.  Mr.  Goodwin  is  Plaintiff  agt.  Mr.  John  Russell  Jun. 
Lieut.  Smith,  Ensign  Cooke  all  of  Hadley  Defdts  in  action  of  the  case  for 
associating  withe  sd  Peter  Tilton  in  acting  upon  sd  schoole  affairs  and  for  all 
just  damage."!  (Court  Record  in  Probate  Office,  Northampton,  pp.  140,  141.) 

Mr.  Tilton  challenged  the  Court  as  unqualified  to  hear  the  case  for 
the  reason  that  the  members  of  the  Court  had  some  of  them  individ- 
ually been  advised  with  concerning  the  matter.  At  the  dictate  of  a 
wise  expediency  they  did  not  hear  the  case.  Hence  it  was  dismissed. 
Two  of  the  Judges  declinind  to  act  because  of  defendant's  objection. 


*NOTE.— Inquiry  has  risen  of  late  whether  Elder  Goodwin  did  not  marry  Mrs.  Susanna, 
the  widow  of  Rev.  Thomas  Hooker. 

fThe  dean  of  the  Court  "exonerates  and  discharges  Mr.  Goodwin  as  having  performed 
his  engagements  concerning  the  estate,"  though  no  exact  and  detailed  account  is  given. 


This  record  further  takes  notice  of  the  "  trouble  and  harshness"  to 
which  Mr.  Goodwin  luvd  been  subjected  in  the  matter  of  the  school 
estate  and  commends  him  for  his  zeal  and  fidelity. 

"The  Corte  considering  the  admirable  inteiis-ness,  the  indefatigable  care 
and  paynes  that  Mr.  Goodwin  hath  expressed  to  promote  and  advance  the 
affairs  of  the  schoole  both  for  its  foundation  and  progress  Doe  thankfully 
accept  thereof."  i;  They  acknowledge  the  good  hand  of  God  in  sending  those 
Reverend  ffathers,  and  worthy  Gentlemen  the  said  Trustees  to  dispose  such 
an  estate  to  these  remote  parts  of  the  country  and  of  this  colony,  for  so 
worthy  and  eminent  a  work.  (See  Record  at  large  pp.  140,  HI.) 

This  record  is  illuminating  as  respects  the  character  of  the  men 
concerned  in  this  business.  We  have  had  occasion  to  notice  the  strong 
individuality  of  Mr.  Goodwin.  A  like  strong  individuality  was 
characteristic  of  the  defendants.  "  Peter  Tilton  was  such  a  man. 
Between  two  such  men  rivalry,  antagonism  and  even  collision  were 
possible.  Difference  there  surely  was,  involving  some  degree  of 
feeling.  For  his  comfort's  sake  Mr.  Goodwin  .may  have  felt  that  it 
would  be  well  for  him  to  leave  Hadley  for  Farming-ton,  that  he  might 
close  his  days  in  peace  remote  from  strife.  He  went  and  thither  his 
troubles  followed  him,  as  has  been  seen.  It  must  have  been  a  sore 
trial  to  his  spirit  that  with  the  chief  defendant  were  associated  Lieut. 
Smith,  Ensign  Cooke,  and,  more  than  all,  Mr.  Russell,  who  afterward 
was  at  such  pains  and  cost  to  vindicate  his  memory  and  secure  the 
ends  he  had  at  heart,  with  odds  against  him.  Mr.  Goodwin  lived  on 
the  lot  occupied  by  the  late  Uea.  Geo.  Dickinson,  on  which  earlier 
stood  the  house  of  Dea.  Jacob  Smith. 

Win.  Goodwin  had  one  daughter,  Elizabeth,  who  married  John 
Crow.  One  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  lately  deceased, 
was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Win.  Goodwin.* 

TROUBLES  CONCERNING   THE  SCHOOL  PROPERTY  IN 
THE  CORN  MILL. 

At  the  date  of  the  agreement  of  Mr.  Davenport  and  Mr.  Goodwin, 
April,  1664,  the  part  of  the  Hopkins  estate  assigned  to  Haclley  was  in 
trust  with  Mr.  John  Russell,  Lieut.  Samuel  Smith,  Andrew  Bacon  and 
Peter  Tilton  in  conjunction  with  Mr.  Goodwin  himself,  who  would 
seem  to  have1  had  the  management  of  matters  very  much  in  his  own 
hands.  This  prominence  was  conceded  to  him  so  long  as  he  continued 
to  reside  in  Hadley.  lie  is  spoken  of  as  disposing  of  the  property 
with  the  consent  of  the  other  Trustees,  investing  a  considerable  share 


*Deacon  Rodney  Smith,  died  February  ->,  181)0. 


of  it  in  a  corn  mill,  on  the  mill  brook  a  little  south  of  the  school  lands. 
There  is  no  known  record  of  the  year  in  which  the  mill  was  built,  nor 
of  any  grant  by  the  town  for  the  use  of  the  stream.  A  vote  of  the 
town  Oct.  16,  IG 71,  granted  a  house  lot  for  the  use  of  the  miller. 
(Town  Records) .  The  mill  may  have  been  built  that  year.  In 
Philip's  war  the  mill  was  garrisoned  at  times  and  was  preserved  until 
Sept.,  1677,  when  it  was  burned  by  the  Indians  who  had  made  an 
attack  upon  Hatfield.  The  miller's  house,  the  farm  barn,  fences  and 
other  property  were  likewise  consumed.  The  committee,  through  lack 
of  ability  and  fear  of  the  Indians,  did  not  rebuild  the  mill.  They 
resigned  and  remitted  their  right  to  the  place  and  remains  of  the  dam 
in  consideration  of  ten  pounds  voted  by  the  town  Nov.  7,  1677.  The 
town  likewise  voted  and  granted  to  Robert  Boltwood  the  remains  of 
the  dam  belonging  to  the  mill  aforesaid.  He,  encouraged  by  the 
town,  rebuilt  the  mill  about  1678  or  1679.  The  committee  of  the 
Grammar  school  obtained  it  in  1683,  Samuel  Boltwood  son  of  Robert 
had  it  in  1685  ;  and  it  was  again  delivered  up  to  the  Trustees  of  the 
Hopkins  school  in  1687  in  whose  possession  it  remained. 

The  school  committee  was  not  at  one  in  respect  to  this  surrender. 
Mr.  Russell  never  gave  his  consent.  It  caused  him  sore  trouble  and 
on  the  30th  of  March,  1680,  he  presented  to  the  County  Court  at 
Northampton  the  estate  of  the  school  and  what  had*  been  done  by  the 
other  Trustees,  the  Town  and  Boltwood.  The  Court  decided  that 
this  transaction  of  the  Trustees  was  illegal,  "  we  may  not  allow  so 
great  a  wrong."  They  judged  that  Goodman  Boltwood  should  be 
repaid  what  he  had  expended  and  that  the  mill  should  belong  to  the 
school.  (Judd,  p.  58.) 

ORDER  OF  THE  SESSIONS,  MARCH  30,  1680. 

At  a  Court  held  at  Northampton  March.  30,  1680.  The  languishing  estate 
of  the  school  in  Hartley  being  presented  to  this  Court,  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  John 
Russell,  one  of  the  committee  for  the  said  school,  the  Court  taking  the  same 
into  their  serious  consideration  and  finding  by  the  records  of  this  Court  that 
there  hath  been  three  hundred  pounds  of  Mr.  Hopkins  his  estate  disposed  and 
ordered  to  Hartley  for  erecting  and  maintaining  a  Grammar  school  there,  the 
management  whereof  for  the  school  was  to  be  by  a  committee  appointed  to 
that  end  viz.  The  Rev.  John  Russell,  Mr.  Samuel  Smith,  Mr.  Peter  Tilton  and 
Capt.  Aaron  Cook,  and  finding  in  the  records  of  the  Court  holden  at  Spring- 
field Sept.  24,  1672 ;  that  by  the  accounts  then  presented  to  the  Court  and  by 
the  then  acknowledgement  of  the  committee  for  the  school,  the  aforesaid 
three  hundred  pounds,  which  was  disposed  to  Hadley,  out  of  Mr.  Hopkins 
his  estate ;  was  then  actually  in  the  hands  of  the  committee,  and  under 


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improvement  there  for  the  said  school;  which  that  Court  then  ordered  should 
be  continued,  ami  improved  towards  the  maintenance  of  a  grammar  School  in 
Hadley  forever.  And  accounting  it  our  great  duty  to  use  all  just  endeavors 
to  promote,  as  all  schools  of  learning  in  general,  so  in  particular,  and  more 
especially,  this  school,  that  had  such  a  foundation  and  fair  beginning,  it 
becomes  matter  of  inquiry  of  the  committee,  what  was  become  of  the  said 
three  hundred  pounds,  and  which  way  it  was  laid  out  and  improved  for  the 
school,  who  gave  this  answer. 

That  it  was  most  of  it,  by  Mr.  Goodwin  in  his  life  time  laid  out  upon  a  corn 
mill  standing  upon  a  stream  or  small  river  about  two  miles  or  more  upward 
from  the  town  of  Hadley,  which  mill  brought  in  annually  a  considerable 
income  to  the  school  whilst  it  stood,  but  in  the  time  of  the  Indian  war,  the 
said  mill  and  house  were  burnt  down  and  ruined,  whereby,  the  school  is 
brought  into  a  low  condition.  Hereupon  it  being  further  inquired  into  con- 
cerning the  remains  of  the  said  mill  and  dam,  and  it  appears  that  three  of  the 
committee  (for  the  others  knew  not  the  act  of  the  rest  till  afterwards  and 
they  did  not  consent  to  it)  At  the  motion  of  the  town  of  Hadley  for  the 
encouragement  of  Robert  Boltwood  to  rebuild  the  corn  mill  in  the  place  where 
it  formerly  stood  the  committee  had  in  consideration  of  the  promise  of  ten 
pounds  from  the  town,  for  the  school,  resigned  the  place  and  the  remains  of 
the  Dam  to  the  town  for  that  end,  •whereupon  the  remains  of  the  Dam 
belonging  to  the  mill  above  said  were  by  the  vote  of  the  town  of  Hadley 
granted  to  Robert  Boltwood,  who  built  thereupon,  and  thereon,  as  the  said 
Boltwood  present  in  Court  says,  he  now  improves  the  mill  to  his  own  use 
and  as  his  own. 

This  Court  well  considering  the  premises  and  observing  several  oversights, 
and  irregularities  in  the  aforesaid  proceedings,  and  that  there  i£  no  legal 
alienation  of  the  mill  from  the  school,  nor  may  it  according  to  right  thus  pass 
from  the  school,  for  which  it  was  first  built,  and  to  which  it  was  settled,  do 
therefore  declare  that  the  said  mill  ought  to  revert  and  continue  to  the  Gram- 
mar School  in  Hadley,  and  the  maintenance  thereof;  all  which,  although 
forced  to  declare  in  answer  to  a  case  and  query  propounded,  referring  to  the 
school  estate,  that  we  mat/  not  allow  of  so  great  a  wrong,  and  evident  preju- 
dice to  so  good  a  publick  matter,  yet  do  it  with  great  tenderness  and  respect 
to  the  town  of  Hadley  that  voted ;  to  those  of  the  committee  that  acted 
(knowing  what  a  day  of  temptation  and  discouragement  it  was  done  in, 
through  fear  of  the  enemy  and  uncertainty  of  any  estate)  as  also  with  respect 
to  Goodman  Boltwood,  and  his  estate,  which  we  would  not  be  wasted  or 
suffer  in  the  least  degree.  And  therefore  that  we  may  do  him  all  the  right, 
which  being  true  to  the  public  interest  will  allow  us,  we  judge  that  Robert 
Boltwood  be  fully  satisfied  and  repayed  what  he  has  now  laid  out  or  disbursed 
upon  the  said  mill  and  may  be  justly  due  to  him  upon  that  account.  And  this 
being  done  the  revenue  and  profits  of  the  said  mill,  to  be  continued  and 
improved  according  to  its  native  and  original  constitution  of  it,  toward  the 
maintenance  of  the  Grammar  School  in  Hadley  (which  is  in  part  a  resolve  of 
the  other  query,  or  case  propounded)  and  the  income  from  the  said  mill,  with 
the  rents  of  the  land,  Mr.  Henry  Clarke  gave  to  this  school  and  the  farm  or 


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lands  given  by  the  town  of  Hadley  with  other  donations ;  this  Court  hopes 
will  after  a  little  time  set  the  school  upon  its  legs  again ,  especially  if  the  two 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds  that  is  to  come  to  this  school  from  Mr.  Hopkins 
estate  in  England  can  be  gained.  And  in  the  meantime  we  advise  that  what 
shall  come  in  from  the  land,  mill,  and  otherwise  (till  a  schoolmaster  be  got) 
be  imployed  toward  payment  of  Goodman  Boltwood,  for  that  he  hath  been 
out  upon  the  mill  and  to  putting  of  the  farm,  belonging  to  the  school,  under 
away  of  improvement,  so  as  to  bring  in  a  yearly  rent  or  income  for  the  end 
aforesaid.  Yet  we  see  not  but  that  something  of  the  donations  may  be  to  a 
school  at  Hadley  for  the  present  (if  the  committee  see  cause)  be  allowed  for 
an  English  school  there."  The  soundness  of  this  opinion  was  afterwards 
called  in  question  in  that  without  warrant  it  relaxed  the  requirement  that  a 
Grammar  School  must  be  maintained.  (Records  of  Hopkins  Academy.)  Cop- 
ied from  the  Record  in  Probate  office  pp.  207,  208.  The  same  record  is  found 
in  the  office  of  the  Clerk  of  Court. 

In  the  records  of  the  County  Court  in  the  Probate  Office  at  North- 
ampton is  found  the  following,  pp.  224,  225.  Sept.  26,  1682,  the 
committee  rendered  an  account  of  the  school  estate  to  the  County 
Court. 

REPORT  OF  THE  SCHOOL  COMMITTEE  TO  THE  COURTS  HELD  AT 
SPRINGFIELD,  SEPT.  26,  1682 

The. Committee  for  the  Hopkins  School  in  Hadley  prsented  to  the  Corte  a 
Return  or  an  accompt  concerning  the  school  which  is  as  follows. 

Whereas  the  Worshipful  Edward  Hopkins  Esq.  who  sometyme  dwelt  at 
Hartford  upon  Coneticot.  and  afterward  removed  to  Old  England  where 
finishing  his  course  hee  in  Testimony  of  his  sincere  affection  to  the  work  of 
ye  Lord  in  forraigne  partes  and  as  an  expression  of  his  zeal  to  the  glory  of 
God  therein,  bequeathed  a  considerable  estate  to  be  improved  for  ye  educating 
of  youth  in  good  Literature  and  intrusted  the  same  to  be  disposed  by  the 
Wisdom  and  fidelity  of  Theophilus  Eaton  Esq.  Mr.  John  Davenport  the  Rev. 
Pastor  of  the  church  at  New  Haven,  Capt.  John  Cullick  and  Mr.  Wni  Goodwin 
Sometymes  of  New  Haven  and  Hartford. 

Bee  it  known  that  ye  sayd  Mr.  John  Davenport  and  Mr.  W"  Goodwin  did 
as  by  Deede  under  their  hand  and  seales  Bareing  date  at  Hadley  and  New 
Haven  Aprill  30,  1664  and  May  30,  1664  having  first  made  over  tin-  sum  of 
400£  to  ye  Town  of  Hartford  for  the  erecting  and  maintaining  a  gramer 
school  there  appeares  made  a  free  donation  of  ;ill  ye  rest  of  ye  sayd  estate 
given  by  sayd  Edward  Hopkins  Esq.  to  be  disposed  as  above  sd,  viz  both  yl  of 
which  was  in  New  England  and  alsoe  500£  which  was  after  Mrs.  Hopkins  her 
decease  to  be  sent  over  to  the  Towns  of  New  Haven  and  Hadley  to  be  equally 
divided  between  ye  sd  Towns  excepting  one  hundred  pounds  that  was  to  be 
payd  out  of  that  part  which  belonged  to  Hadley  unto  Harvard  Coledge.  This 
was  to  be  improved  in  each  Town  for  ye  erecting  and  maintaining  of  a  Gramer 
School  and  committed  to  the  management  of  their  assignes  and  their  succes- 
sors which  they  should  from  tyme  to  tyme  Chuse  for  the  prsuance  and  putting 
in  execution  ye  will  of  ye  Pious  and  Worthy  donour.  The  assignes  first 
nominated  and  appointed  by  Mr.  Davenport  and  Mr.  Goodwin  in  their  original 


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Deecle  were  ye  Rev.  Mr.  John  Russell,  pastor  of  ye  Church  of  X  in  Hadley 
Leuft.  Sam1  Smith.  Andrew  Bacon  and  Peter  Tilton,  of  whom  Andrew  Bacon 
not  excepting  and  Mr.  Tilton  delaying  his  acceptance  until  some  further 
overture  had  passed  between  Mr.  Goodwin  and  the  Town  of  Hadley,  after- 
wards he  accepted  of  sd  work  and  Aaron  Cooke  Jun.  was  Chosen  by  Mr. 
Goodwin  with  the  consent  of  the  Rest  in  the  Roome  of  the  sd  Andrew  Bacon 
he  accepted  the  same  March  2(5,  1669  and  the  school  by  a  joynt  vote  and 
agreement  was  called  the  Hopkins  School.  These  Remayned  ye  Assignes  or 
Committee  for  ye  sd  Hopkins  School  untill  ye  7  dec  1680  when  Leuft  Sam1 
Smith  lyeing  sick  and  prceiving  his  approaching  end  the  sd  Sam1  Smith  and 
Mr.  Peter  Tilton  the  Reverend  Mr.  John  Russell  Capt  Aaron  Cooke  chose  his 
son  Leuft  Phillip  Smith  in  the  Roome  in  sayd  Trust.  Hee  the  Sayd  Phillip 
Smith  delayed  his  acceptance  of  the  said  Trust  untill  April  13,  1682  and  then 
he  accepted  and  acted  with  the  Rest.  Likewise  Mr.  Peter  Tilton  have  long 
desired  to  lay  down  the  burden  of  that  service  and  being  unwilling  after  all 
entreaties  to  continue  ye  same  on  ye  sd  13  Aprill  1682  he  layed  down  the 
said  place.  The  Rest  of  the  Comittee  yielding  thereto,  he  having  for  it 
together  with  ye  sd  Mr.  John  Russell  Capt.  Aaron  Cooke  and  Leuft  Phillip 
Smith  made  choice  of  Sam1  Partrigg  to  succeed  in  the  Roome  of  ye  sd  Mr. 
Tilton  on  the  sd  13  of  Aprill  1682  the  sd  Sam11  Partrigg  accepted  the  sd  service 
and  acted  therein  so  that  ye  present  comittee  for  Hopkins  School  in  Hadley 
are  ye  Rev  John  Russell  Capt  Aaron  Cooke  Leuft.  Phillip  Smith  and  Sam11 
Partrigg. 

The  estate  of  the  Hopkins  School  prsented  by  the  comittee  was 

£       s.      d. 

By  Mr.  Goodwins  account  as  in  the  particulars  thereof  it  appears 

308—01  -11 

Item  Given  by  Thomas  Coleman  05 — 00 — 00 

Item  Given  by  W"  Westwood  013 — 17 — 02 

Item  Given  by  Widow  Barnard  002 — 00 — 00 


328—19—01 

Item  Given  by  the  Town  of  Hadley  to  the  School  two  small  meadows  lyeing 
about  the  mill  commonly  called  the  school  meadows  by  estimation  about  60 
acres  of  meadow 

Item  Given  by  Nathaniel  Ward  of  Hadley  to  y°  schoole  one  house  writh 
about  an  acre  of  Land  and  about  twelve  acres  of  meadow  Land 

Item  Given  by  John  Barnard  twelve  acres  of  meadow 

Item  Given  by  Mr.  Henry  Clarke  about  eleven  acres  and  a  half  of  meadow 
Land 

These  Lands  have  not  been  brought  to  any  particular  vallueation. 

Item  There  is  by  yl>  sd  Deed  of  Mr.  John  Davenport  and  Mr.  Wm  Goodwin 
the  one  half  of  500  li  which  Mr.  Hopkins  by  his  last  will  ordered  to  be  sent  to 
New  England  given  to  sd  Hopkins  School  in  Hadley  the  which  has  not  yet 
been  received  and  we  feare  is  never  like  to  be.  The  account  of  Hopkins 
School  in  Hadley  as  Mr.  Goodwin  gives  an  account  of  charges  expended  by 
him  to  settle  the  estate  £10 — 00 — 00 

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Item  loss  in  the  price  of  a  house  and  land  bought  by  Mr. 

Goodwin  and  allowed  25 — 08 — 00 

Item  building  a  cellar,  Grain e,  Chimney,  and  oven  while  the 

mill  was  building.  3 — 00—00 

Item  building  a  house  over  the  mill  12 — 03 — 00 

Item  building  a  house  for  the  miller  to  dwell  in  43 — 19 — 03 

Item  building  a  Barne  for  ye  tt'arine  10 — 00 — 00 

Item  fencing  in  ye  farm  at  first  2fi — 04 — 00 

[tern  fencing  twice  more  after  the  war  20—00 — 00 

Item  pd  to  clearing  a  debt  of  Mr.  Hopkins  which  was  con- 
dition at  of  clearing  a  debt  to  Mr.  Hopkins  17 — 00—00 
Item  to  W1"  Markham  for  a  rood  of  Land  and  Repair  of 

a  Barn  05—00  -  00 

The  Remaynder  of  this  School  Estate  except  House  and  Land  was  all  of  it 
expended  in  Building  a  mill  and  Damm  and  repairs  of  the  houses  and  in  setting 
up  and  maintaining  the  school  master  in  y1'  beginning  of  the  work  principly 
by  Mr.  Goodwin  before  the  Comittee  had  any  considerable  influence  in  the 
work.  The  mill  thus  erected  and  fitted  yielded  at  first  five  or  six  and  twenty 
pounds  per  annum,  afterward  about  twenty,  which  all  of  it  that  could  be  spared 
from  necessary  repairs  was  improved  towards  the  maintaining  the  school 
master  for  ye  sd  drainer  School  until  in  the  Indian  Warr  it  was  burnt  and 
consumed  by  the  enemie  except  yc  irons  and  some  small  remaynes. 

These  with  the  house  and  Land  continue  of  the  school  estate,  the  farm 
being  now  fenced  again  and  the  last  yeare  Lett  out  to  tenants  hath  yielded 
some  small  rent  which  is  imployed  towards  the  maintenance  of  the  School 
master. 

This  is  the  true  account  of  ye  state  and  estate  of  Hopkins  School  in  Hadley 
this  present  25  of  Sept.  1US2 

JOHN  RUSSELL 
AAKON  COOKK 

This  Corte  having  p1' used  this  return  or  account  for  ye  Comittee  of  Hopkins 
his  school  in  Hadley  doe  accept  and  allow  thereof  soe  fan-  as  it  is  at  present 
and  doe  take  notice  of  yc  p'sent  comittee  for  Hopkins  School  in  Hadley 
to  be  Mr  John  Russell  Pastor  to  the  Church  of  Christ  in  Hadley  Capt.  Aaron 
Cooke  Leuft  Phillip  Smith  and  Sam11  Partrigg  all  of  Hadley  whom  this  Corte 
do  allow  and  approve  of  all  and  doe  desire  and  expect  their  further  manage- 
ment and  carrying  on  of  y°  affairs  of  sd  schoole  from  tyme  to  tyme  which  this 
Corte  will  be  always  ready  to  promote  and  encourage  as  need  may  require.* 


*XOTK.— Record  probate  otli.-e,  pp.  '2-24,  -225.     Tho  same  in  the  ofliee  of  Clerk  of  Court. 


CHAPTER   V. 


DOINGS  COM KRNIXO  THE  SCHOOL,  MILL,  «&r.   FROM 

1683-1688. 

Aug.  N,  16<S3,  Robert  Boltvvood  agreed  to  surrender  the  mill  and 
appurtenances  to  the  school  committee"  in  consideration  of  their  pay- 
ing him  £138  in  grain  and  pork.  They  took  possession  about  Nov. 
1,  1683. 

In  1684  hindrances  arose.  The  town  challenged  some  right  in  the 
stream  and  land,  and  the  committee  would  not  consumate  the  bargain. 
Robert  Boltwood  died  in  1684. 

.March  30,  168;"),  John  Pyuchon  and  John  Allis  heard  the  case  of 
Samuel  Boltwood  and  the  school  committee,  John  Russell,  Aaron 
Cooke  and  Samuel  Partrigg,  by  choice  and  consent  of  the  parties, 
respecting  an  agreement  and  bargain  with  Robert  Boltwood  made 
Aug.  8,  1683.  They  decided  that  Samuel  Boltwood  should  give  the 
committee  a  clean  title  to  the  mill  and  its  appurtenances  or  else  make 
them  good  in  the  sum  of  £44,  13s,  fxl,  since  to  this  extent  was  he  under 
obligation  to  them.  (  See  the  originanl  award  in  the  papers  with  J.  R. 
Trumbull.)  In  consequence  of  this  decision  Mr.  Judd  says  the  mill 
was  delivered  up  to  Samuel  Boltwood  about  May  1,  1685. 

At  a  new  county  court  appointed  by  Andros,  held  at  Northampton, 
June  6,  1687.  The  order  of  the  President  and  Council  was  read  and 
a  petition  and  statement  from  the  Trustees  of  the  school.  Samuel 
Boltwood  was  summoned  to  appear  and  show  cause  why  he  detained 
the  mill.  He  presented  a  paper  giving  a  regular  account  of  his 
father's  building  and  selling  the  mill  and  of  the  award  of  Pynt'hon  and 
Allis,  which  put  the  mill  into  the  Boltwood's  hands.  Referring  to  the 
award,  he  says,  "it  seems  rational,  especially  for  those  who  profess 
religion,  to  stand  by  what  was  done,  or  make  good  their  bond. 
What*  is  my  just  right  I  plead  for  and  no  other.  "  The  next  day  the 
court  ordered  those  persons  in  Hadley,  who  had  taken  the  school 
estate  into  their  hands  for  an  English  school  to  return  it  speedily  to 


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the  former  committee  the  feoffees  of  the  Grammar  school  viz.  Mr. 
John  Russell,  Aaron  Cooke,  Joseph  Kellogg  and  Samuel  Porter  to 
whom  they  added  Chileab  Smith  in  room  of  Samuel  Partrigg  removed. 

They  also  ordered  that  Samuel  Boltwood  should  deliver  up  the 
school  mill  and  appurtenances  to  the  same  feoffees  for  the  mainten- 
ance of  the  school.  If  the  feoffees  and  Boltwood  could  not  agree  the 
matter  was  to  be  submitted  to  arbitrators  agreed  upon  by  the  parties. 
Judd's  Hist.  Hadley,  pp.  61,  62. 

Apr.  10,  1688.  The  difficulty  between  Samuel  Boltwood  and  the 
school  committee  as  to  what  should  be  paid  sd.  Boltwood  for  his  own 
and  his  father's  expenses  on  the  mill,  was  submitted  to  arbitration 
by  mutual  agreement  and  choice,  to  William  Clarke,  Esq.,  Joseph 
Hawley,  Esq.  and  Samuel  Partrigg,  two  of  these  agreeing  to  decide. 
If  no  two  agreed,  then  Lieut.  Allis  was  to  agree  and  determine  with 
two  of  the  aforesaid,  and  this  judgment  was  to  be  approved  by  the 
members  of  the  Hon.  Superior  Court.  The  committee  were  John 
Russell,  Aaron  Cooke,  Joseph  Kellogg,  Chileab  Smith. 

Apr.  26,  Wm.  Clark,  Joseph  Hawley  and  John  Allis  signed  a  decision  that 
Goodman  Boltwood  should  be  alowed  for  what  he  and  his  father  hath 
expended  in  or  about  the  mill  now  in  the  hands  of  the  committee  above 
sd,  seventy-one  pouns,  ten  shillings ;  toward  which  we  find  the  committee 
hath  already  paid  sixty-two  pounds,  eleven  shillings  and  eleven  pence, 
half-penny,  so  there  is  clue  still  to  Goodman  Boltwood  08-19-11  1-2, 
which  we  order  the  committee  to  pay  unto  Goodman  Boltwood  in  wheat, 
peas  and  Indian  and  pork  at  equal  proportions,  or  such  other  pay  as 
may  be  to  his  satisfaction,  which  being  performed  they  shall  give  full  acquit- 
tances and  discharges  each  to  other  and  this  to  be  a  full  and  final  issue 
betwixt  them  of  alt  differences  for  or  about  the  school  estate. 

That  this  is  our  determination  we  have  hereunto  subscribed  or  names,  the 
clay  and  year  above  sd. 

WILLIAM  CLARKE, 
JOSEPH  HAWLEY, 
JOHN  ALLIS. 

Apr.  26,  1688.  Sam11  Partrigg  alsoe  agreed  to  the  above  sd  except  only, 
that  he  apprehended  that  there  was  a  consciencious  due  to  Robert  Boltwood 
or  his  heirs,  with  refference  to  his  Building  these  mills  in  a  tyme  wrin  he 
exposed  himself  and  family  and  the  estate  he  layed  out  on  the  aforesaid 
accoumpt  in  eminent  Hazzard  by  reason  of  the  Indian  enemy,  the  war  not 
being  at  an  end  and  defended  principally  at  his  own  charges  as  alsoe  the 
Bargaining  yl  was  made  with  him  by  the  town  pt.  of  the  committee  etc., 
though  now  it  proves  illegal  in  law,  yet  something  he  apprehended  due  from 
them  that  Bargained  with  him 

SAMU  PARTRIGG. 
(Original  paper  with  Jucld  collection  with  J.  11.  Trumbull.) 


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In  such  wise  this  prolonged  trouble  and  strife  were  composed  and  a 
period  of  quiet  ensued  lasting  many  years. 

The  period  during  and  following  Philip's  war  for  more  than  ten 
years  was  full  of  trial  and  discouragement.  Population  diminished. 
Values  shrunk.  The  school  revenues,  especially,  had  suffered  serious 
loss,  whose  repair  seemed  not  very  hopeful.  The  hearts  of  the  people 
sunk.  The  school  was  kept  up  with  difficulty.  It  was,  in  fact,  inter- 
mittent. It  was  not  easy  to  get  and  keep  a  master  competent  to  teach 
the  Grammar  school.  It  was  felt  that  in  the  situation,  an  P^nglish 
school  would  answer  all  demands  and  obligations.  The  Court  had 
given  encouragement  to  this  sentiment.  In  the  controversy  that 
sprung  up  at  this  time  and  showed  much  heat,  the  great  majority  were 
on  this  side  of  the  question.  Mr.  Russell,  though  his  sense  of  right 
and  duty  in  the  other  direction  was  strong,  found  only  a  few  to  stand 
with  him.  The  general  feeling  found  expression  in  the  action  of  the 
Town  given  herewith. 

Aug.  23, 1686.  Voted  by  the  To.wn  that  all  the  estates  of  Houses  and  Lands 
bequeathed  and  given  by  any  Donor  or  Donours  In  their  last  will  and  Testa- 
ment to  this  town  of  Hadley  or  to  a  schoole  in  said  town,  or  to  the  promoting 
and  furtherance  of  learning  in  said  town  as  the  legacie  of  Nathaniel  Ward, 
John  Barnard  and  Henry  Clarke  Gent,  they  would  look  on  said  estates  and 
donations  to  belong  nextly  to  the  town  to  be  improved  according  to  the  will 
of  the  testators  and  therefore  take  it  into  their  own  hands  to  manage  order 
and.  dispose,  to  the  use  of  a  school  in  the  Town  of  Hadley,  this  had  a  full 
vote  in  the  affirmative. 

Voted  bythe  Town  that  Ensign  Nash,  Henry  Barnard,  Nehemiah  Dickinson, 
Thomas  Hovey  and  Samuel  Barnard  are  a  committee  from  the  Towne  to  make 
demand  of  the  school  committee  of  all  the  produce  Increase  and  rents  of 
lands  and  estates  above  said,  and  accrueing  thereto  which  at  present  are  in 
their  hands  undisposed  of. 

Voted,  that  the  Selectmen  shall  have  full  power  to  Sett  and  Lett  out  the 
lands  abovenamed  for  the  use  abovesaid. 

Voted  by  the  Town  that  Mr.  Partrigg,  Ensign  Nash,  Nehemiah  Dickinson 
and  P.  T.  are  a  committee  to  look  out  for  the  procuring  a  school  master,  and 
to  determine,  conclude  and  Agree  with  him  with  refference  to  his  salary 
according  to  their  best  discretion.  Voted  and  granted."  First  Town  Record 
p.  26.  A  true  copy  compared  with  the  original  Oct.  8,  1686  By  us 

JOHN  RUSSELL  and  AARON  COOKK. 

In  such  a  vote  Mr.  Russell  could  by  no  means  acquiesce.  He  must 
have  been  deeply  and  strongly  moved.  The  general  feeling  in  the 
town  was  one  of  strong  opposition.  One  of  the  committee,  a  man  of 
influence  and  power,  was  the  leader  on  that  side.  This  was  a  kind  of 
proceeding  under  which  it  was  not  in  Mr.  Russell  to  remain  quiet  and 


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make  no  protest  and  seek  no  relief.  Hence  he  submitted  the  case  at 
the  earliest  moment  to  the  county  court  held  in  Springfield,  Sept.  28, 
1686.  The  order  of  the  Court  is  here  given,  p.  260  Probate  Record* 

ORDER  OF  THE  COUNTY  COURT  SEPT.  28,  1686,  AT  THE  COUNTY 
COURT  HOLDEN  AT  SPRINGFIELD. 

The  declining  estate  of  Hopkins  School  in  Iladley,  being  presented  to  this 
Court  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  John  Russell  Aaron  Cook  Joseph  Kellogg  and  Samuel 
Porter  the  committee  of  the  said  school  for  that  some  of  Hadley,  do  disturb 
or  obstruct  the  management  of  the  estate  of  said  school ;  therefore  this  Court 
doth  declare  and  order  that  the  whole  donations  to  a  school  there,  from  the 
charitable  donors,  be  all  employed  and  improved,  for  and  towards  the  main- 
tenance of  the  Grammar  School  there  in  Hadley,  it  appearing  that  the  intent 
of  Mr.  Henry  Clarke  in  what  he  gave  to  the  school  was,  that  it  should  go  and 
be  employed  to  the  said  school,  called  Hopkins  School,  also  the  like  doth 
appear  as  to  goodman  Wards  gift,  and  goodman  Barnards  may  as  well  be 
taken  to  and  for  that  school  as  any  other. 

Wherefore  this  Court  orders  that  all  said  gifts  and  others  with  the  land 
given  by  Hadley  town  be  all  accordingly  improved  by  the  aforesaid  committee 
And  that  Mr.  Samuel  Partridge,  one  of  the  committee  who  dissented  from  the 
rest,  ought  to  concur  and  join  with  them  in  it.  We  further  declare  that  some 
former  concessions  of  the  County  Court  at  Northampton  March  30,  1680, 
which  were  suited  to  gain  a  compliance  of  all,  and  to  ease  some  spirits,  were 
not  so  warily  expressed,  and  therefore,  those  concessions  or  expressions  may 
not  and  are  not  to  be  understood  to  the  disadvantage  of  the  said  school. 
But  that  the  mill,  farm  and  all  the  donations,  are  notwithstanding  to  be 
improved  for  and  to  the  said  Grammar  School  and  not  to  an  English  disjunct 
and  separate  from  a  grammar  school. 

We  further  advise,  that  the  said  committee,  as  trustees  for  Hopkins  estate 
do  jointly  improve  all,  for  the  ends  aforesaid  and  do  propose  it  to  the  town 
of  Hadley,  to  add  something  and  help  forward  a  school,  which  may  suit  and 
answer  both  the  committee's  trust  and  the  town's  end  also,  of  having  children 
taught  to  read  and  write.  And  Mr.  Peter  Tilton  not  concurring,  but  alledging 
that  one  party,  viz.  the  town  of  Hadley,  were  not  present,  (though  Mr.  Par- 
tridge spoke  in  the  Court  in  their  behalf ;  therefore  further  this  Court  orders 
that  in  case  the  trustees  of  Hopkins  school  and  the  town  of  Hadley,  do  not 
sodder  or  come  to  an  agreement  about  said  estate,  and  school,  that  then  it  be 
further  considered  at  Northampton  Court. 

This  act,  made  in  Court  Sept.  28,  and  Sept.  30,  168(5  and  ordered  to  be 
entered. 

As  attest  JOHN  HOLYOKB  Clerk. 

Oct  2,  1686  extracted  out  of  the  acts  of  the  abovesaid  Court,  examined  and 
compared  therewith,  and  a  true  copy. 

Attest  JOHN  HOLYOKE  Clerk. 


This  Record  is  found  both  in  the,  Probate  office  and  in  the  office  of  the  Clerk  of  Courts 
at  Northampton . 


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The  following  paper,  sent  probably  at  the  same  time  with  the  act  of 
the  Court,  Sept.  28,  30,  is  in  place  here,  immediately  after  the  decree 
of  Court. 

LETTER  OF  JOHN  PYNCHON  TO  MR.  RUSSELL. 

Springfield,  Oct.  2,  1(580.     To  the  Revd  Mr.  Russell  p  to  ye  Ch.  in  Hadley. 

Rev'1  Sir  I  am  hartity  sorry  Mr  Partrig  is  so  cross  in  ye  businesse  of  the 
school  and  so  averse  as  to  obstruct  all  p'ceecling  but  it  will  be  the  duty  of 
the  committee  and  nothing  will  be  done  as  it  ought  till  he  be  removed  wh  I 
suppose  Predt  and  council  may  do  and  sea  good  reason  for  it.  Its  soe  hard 
for  the  County  Court  to  do  any  thing  Mr  P.  being  present  and  a  justice  of 
the  P.  in  some  degree  one  of  the  Cort.  And  Mr.  Tilton  fully  falling  in  with 
him  and  is  as  strong  and  full  in  all  his  notions  as  Mr.  P.  himf ,  that  hereby  it 
is  a  wonder  y'  any  th  passed  it  being  strongly  urged  yl  ye  Cort  had  not  to  do 
in  it  &c.  that  ye  Cort  might  not  however  take  cognizance  unlesse  y*  I  had 
been  sumoned. 

Mr.  Cl.  tho,  a  friend  in  ye  businesse  and  was  almost,  &c.  But  I  am  glad  we 
gott  passed  so  mh  as  to  recover  and  regain  the  ground  lost  formerly  as  you 
will  see  by  the  inclosed  wh.  in  truth  Mr.  P.  desired  Hadley  might  not  see  or 
know  at  least  awhile  and  Mr.  Tilton  said  it  would  kindle  such  a  flame  yt  would 
not  be  quenched.  But  if  to  do  right  and  secure  public  wright,  kindle  a 
flame  the  will  of  the  Ld.  be  done.  And  yet  I  beg  his  leading  all  concerned  to 
act  with  moderation  &c.  To  gett  the  paper  and  order  passed  I  was  enforced 
to  declare  yl  if  Mr.  Clarke  did  not  assent  with  me  I  would  alone  have  it  on 
record  myf .  But  he  concurred  in  the  order  and  it  is  the  act  of  the  Court  and 
now  it  is  exprssed  an  order  of  the  Court. 

Mr.  Partr  affirmed  the  Court  never  ordered  any  th.  only  approved  &c.  The 
latter  part  of  it  is  advising — Spossing  the  T.  wd  join  and  add  someth.  bee. 
noth.  also  passed  and  the  last  is  by  way  of  Advice.  The  former  is  an  order 
wherein  is  an  exprsn  declaring  yt  all  ye  Comittee  ought  to  Joyne  together 
And  then  if  one  will  obstruct  it  is  necessary  and  must  come  to  it  yt  he  be 
removed  by  the  Psid  &c  who  must  do  this  businesse  we  are  too  weak  in  ye 
c  Court  and  I  am  full  for  it  to  leave  all  with  ye  Presd  and  glad  it  is  like  to 
be  in  the  hands  of  ym  who  will  powerfully  order. 

And  I  pray  Gd  ye  sc  may  stand  upon  its  right  basis  and  all  may  run  in  the 
old  Channel  bee  *  *  it  is  right  so  to  be  however  I  h  been  Somew^hat  forced 
to  yield  But  now  I  hope  have  gott  upon  even  if  not  the  higher  ground  and 
bottom  or  standing  already,  lam  highly  ambitious  of  having  the  countenance 
of  the  Prsidt  in  setting  the  sch  and  all  matters  in  Statu  quo  with  most  humble 
sarvice  Yors  most  Cordiale 

JOHN  PYNCHON. 

That  Exprsion  y*  ye  committc  to  act  joyntly  and  together  was  most 
unhappily  done  by  &c.  and  must  be  attended. 

The  order  of  the  Court  Sept.  28,  IBS 6,  is  found  on  the  same  paper 
and  was  probably  sent  to  Mr.  Russell  with  this  letter. 


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About  this  time  it  would  seem  that  the  offices  of  the  President  and 
council  in  this  business  were  invoked.  In  what  sort  they  responded 
can  be  learned  from  what  follows.  Joseph  Dudley  was  now  in  the 
office  of  President  under  a  commission  of  King  James  II,  and  with  a 
council  had  jurisdiction  over  the  King's  dominion  of  New  England. 
Dudley  held  this  office  till  Dec.  20,  of  this  year,  1686,  succeeded  by 
Sir  Edmund  Andros  who  was  deposed  by  a  vote  of  the  people,  April 
20,  1689.  This  was  an  an  arbitrary  government  in  which  the  voice 
of  the  people  was  not  heard,  which  they  disliked,  and  yielded  to  it 
with  ill  grace.  From  Pres't  Dudley  Mr.  Pynchon  received  an  order. 
What  came  of  it  is  told  herewith. 

MAJOR  PYNCHON  AND  COMMITTEE, S  RETURN  TO  THE  PRESI- 
DENT AND  COUNCIL  IN  BOSTON,  1686. 

To  the  Honorable  the  President  and  Council  in  Boston. 

In  obdience  to  an  order  received  from  the  Honble  Council  bearing  date 
October  21,  1686,  on  Thursday,  November,  18,  1686  I  went  to  Hartley  and  sent 
for  Capt.  Aaron  Cooke  Sen.  and  Mr.  Hawley.  On  the  same  day,  I  acquainted 
Mr.  Partrigg  that  I  was  come  up,  on  the  Councils  order  to  examine,  and  make 
report  of  the  school  affairs.  Therefore,  I  desired  a  town  meeting  the  next 
morning  that  the  town  might  depute  some  persons  to  give  us  an  account  of 
things ;  and  after  divers  words  was  fain  to  order,  that  there  should  be  a  town 
meeting  at  sun  a  quarter  of  an  hour  high.  After  this  some  hours- in  the 
night,  some  of  the  towns  men  came  tome, and  made  sundry  cavilling  objections, 
that  they  were  surprised  and  that  it  was  not  the  way  to  make  good  blood  etc. 
Next  morning  Capt.  Cooke  and  Mr.  Hawley  came  over  to  Hadley  and  having 
waited  till  towards  noon,  some  men  came  to  us  as  a  committee  from  the 
town  viz.  Mr.  Tilton,  Mr.  Partrigg  with  some  others  who  objected  against 
the  Councils  order,  in  that  it  expressed  a  free  school  and  they  had  no  contro- 
versy about  any  such  school  and  that  there  was  no  particular  complaint ;  and 
therefore  they  should  refuse  to  declare  aught.  We  told  them  we  should 
proceed  to  hear  the  school  committee  and  were  willing  to  give  them  opportu- 
nity of  answering. 

Towards  night  (we  waiting  all  this  wrhile)  the  same  committee  with  some 
others,  coming  from  the  town,  said  that  not  being  willing  to  show  themselves 
surly,  they  came  and  were  willing  to  hear  and  discourse  with  us,'  as  gentle- 
men and  friends ;  but  not  in  attendance  to  the  councils  order,  that  they  should 
utterly  refuse. 

The  Committee  for  the  school,  readily  gave  in  the  inclosed  account  of  their 
reasons,  why  they  could  not  consent  to  the  taking  the  estate  given  to  Hop- 
kins's  school  to  any  other  use,  and  presented  to  us,  the  orders  of  the  town,  and 
county  courts,  proving  that  the  estate  was  by  the  TownaM  given  to  Hopkins's 
school ;  to  be  ordered  by  the  committee  chosen  by  Mr.  Goodwin  and  the  town  and 
their  successors  forever.  Neither  do  wre  find  anything  by  the  town  presented, 
that  doth  any  way  invalidate  the  reasons  and  plans,  presented  by  the  commit- 


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tee ;  notwithstanding,  the  town,  by  their  act  here  presented  have  taken  away 
a  great  part  if  not  all  the  estate. 

The  Towns  committee  after  they  heard  what  Avas  presented,  drew  out  two 
or  three  long  papers  in  a  way  of  answer,  and  therein  labored  to  prove  an 
English  school  was  a  Grammar  school,  therefore  improving  the  estate,  that 
way  answered  the  end  of  the  donors,  but  they  utterly  refused  to  let  us  have 
their  answers  or  to  send  them  to  the  Council ;  alledging  that  they  had  no 
power  to  do  so.  They  further  said  :  that  no  council  nor  county  had  anything 
to  do  with  the  estate,  but  in  a  court  of  law,  that  it  was  their  property,  there- 
fore at  their  dispose;  for  property  and  use  were  inseparable,  they  were  in 
possession  and  could  not  be  ousted,  but  by  a  trial  by  their  peers,  (tho  they 
themselves,  without  the  using  any  such  way,  or  method,  had  taken  it  from 
the  committee,  although  they  had  possessed  it,  these  twenty  years.) 

The  committee  humbly  beg,  they  may  be  convinced  of  their  error,  or 
strengthened  in  their  work,  or  freed  from  it,  and  from  the  great  complaints 
of  their  acting  by  will — not  being  peaceable  and  well  wishers  to  the  town — 
and  that  they  may  be  directed  what  to  do  with  respect  to  the  mill,  which  the 
County  Court  ordered  to  return  to  the  school,  and  how  they  should  act  in 
regard  of  that  clause  of  their  commission,  that  saith,  that  they  should  act 
jointly  and  together.  Mr.  Partrigg,  one  of  the  committee,  acting  against 
them.  We  humbly  propose  whether  the  clause,  jointly  and  together,  may 
not  refer,  only  to  the  committee  that  was  chosen  partly  by  Mr.  Goodwin  and 
partly  by  the  Town,  and  not  to  any  successors,  which  are  otherwise  chosen — 
also  whether  it  be  not  necessary  to  remove  Mr.  Partrigg  from  being  one  of 
the  committee,  he  being  so  strongly  against  the  estates  being  improved  for  a 
Grammar  School ;  which  is  sufficient  to  maintain  one,  with  a  little  addition 
from  the  town.  Also  whether  it  be  not  necessary,  speedily  to  order,  the 
return  of  the  estate  again,  into  the  hands  of  the  school  committee. 

We  should  have  sent  your  Honors  copies  of  the  settlement  of  the  estate 
upon  Hopkins, s  School,  but  that  we  understand  by  Mr.  Russell,  they  are 
already  with  the  President. 

Humbly  requesting  that  some  speedy  course  may  be  taken  by  an  act  from 
the  council,  for  the  quieting  of  the  hot  and  raised  Spirits  of  the  people  in  the 
town ;  and  setting  of  this  on  its  right  basis,  we  subscribe  ourselves 
Your  Honors,  most  humble  Servants 

JOHN  PYNCHON 
AARON  COOKE 
JOSEPH  HAWLEY 

Nov.  19,  K)8(5.  Voted  by  the  Towne  that  Mr.  Partrigg  and  Ensign  Nash 
and  P.  T.  shall  be  sent  to  the  gentlemen  whom  the  President  and  Council 
have  ordered  to  appeare  and  examine  some  applications  made  to  themselves 
by  some  of  Hadley,  respecting  a  free  school,  to  signify  to  said  gentlemen 
that  the  Town  think  themselves  not  concerned  in  said  order,  there  being  no 
difference  about  any  suoh  thing  as  a  tt'ree  schoole,  there  being  no  such  schoole 
among  us.  Voted  by  the  town,  nevertheless,  that  Mr.  Partrigg,  Ensign 
Nash,  Nehemiah  Dickinson,  Daniell  Marsh,  Tho.  Hovey  and  P.  T.  be  a  com- 
mittee from  themselves  to  treat  with  said  gentlemen  or  to  give  Answer  to 


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what  may  be  Aledged  in  a  difference  betweene  some  of  the  comittee  for  our 
Towne  schoole  and  themselves  that  so,  if  possible,  there  may  be  an  Amicable 
compliance. 

The  Reasons  of  the  School  Committee  which  were  given  in  to  the 
Committee  and  by  them  sent  to  the  Council. 

WRITTEN  BY   MR.  RUSSELL. 

We  cannot  consent  to  the  taking  the  estate  belonging  to  Hopkins, s  School 
in  Hadley,  from  the  said  school,  and  putting  it  to  any  other  use:  because  to 
us,  this  is  1st.  Against  the  gift  to  the  good  work,  therefore  not  right  211'1 
Against  our  trust,  therefore  not  faithfulness  3rd  Trust  committed  to  us  by 
solemn  and  solemnly  ratified  covenant— therefore  against  truth  and  truth  that 
that  we  are  betrusted  with  the  execution  of.  4th  against  the  will  of  the  deceased 
therefore  not  according  to  the  principles  of  humanity  and  piety  5th  Against 
the  law  of  not  removing  ancient  landmarks,  therefore  brings  the  curse  <Vh 
Against  the  Lord  in  His  right,  therefore  Sacrilege  7th  Against  authority, 
managed  by  disowning,  denying,  opposing  and  misleading,  (that  we  say  not 
seducing)  others  thereto,  therefore  against  the  ordinance  of  God,  against 
peace — therefore  against  holiness  &c.  against  the  welfare  of  the  town  for  the 
present  and  the  future,  in  all  generations  therefore  unkindness  to  them  and 
their  publick  good,  against  the  rule  of  prudence,  exposing  us  to  sin  and  folly 
as  well  as  the  hazard  of  our  estates,  thus  we  say  it  is  to  us.  If  any  can  show 
us  that  we  err  herein,  we  shall  we  trust  willingly  attend  to,  and  led  by  better 
light  than  our  own,  but  till  then,  we  look  on  what  is  done,  as  the  taking  away 
all  the  school  estate,  and  overthrow  of  that  work. 

These  seven  heads  of  argument  are  elaborated  at  much  length  with 
abundant  appeal  to  scripture  and  no  little  iteration.  The  fifth  head 
is  argued  as  follows  : 

"  5th  Against  the  law  of  land  marks,  Deut.  27  :  17,  Cursed  be  he  that  re- 
moveth  his  neighbors  land  mark."  These  land  marks  between  God,  and  the 
town  and  all  others,  were  set  in  the  lot  March  20th  and  26th  1668-9  by  Mr. 
Goodwin  for  himself  and  Mr.  Hopkins ;  and  by  the  Town  and  by  the  Court 
March  30th  and  by  the  Committee.  Now  for  any  of  these  parties  to  alter  these 
land  marks,  without  the  consent  of  all  the  rest,  is  against  the  law  and  against 
right.  Mr.  Goodwin  doth  not  consent,  the  committee  consent  not,  the  Court 
consent  not,  and  if  all  these,  who  shall  consent  for  God?  This  is  also  done 
without  any  trial  by  law,  even  by  those  who  say,  they  can  be  touched  in  no 
other  way.  Shall  wre  remove  land  marks  becaitse  men,  or  a  Town  will  be 
angry  if  we  do  not?  If  it  be  objected  that  the  estate  taken  by  the  Town  and 
which  we  are  required  to  surrender  was  given  to  a  school,  not  to  Hopkins, s 
therefore  no  wrong.  The  answer  is 

The  Town  hath  given  it  to  Hopkins, s  School  forever;  upon  serious  consid- 
eration ;  by  a  solemn  covenant  with  Mr.  Goodwin ;  ordered  it  to  be  enrolled 
in  the  Court,  the  Court  have  added  their  sanction  to  it;  the  Court,  the  Town 
and  Mr.  Goodwin,  have  betrusted  the  execution  of  this  covenant  with  the 
Committee  and  they  have  undertaken  it.  Who  shall  now  warrant  the  execu- 
tion of  tliis  covenant  (tho'  an  error)  with  God  and  His  property. 


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That  act  especially  of  pious  and  publick  minded  men.  which  is  capable  of  M 
double  interpretation  a  better  or  worse.  Charity  and  piety  binds  us  (leaves  us 
not  at  liberty)  to  interpret  in  the  best  manner. 

If  a  pious  man  gives  to  a  school;  and  there  is  not  one  word  to  distinguish 
what  school ;  piety  and  Charity  bind  to  refer  it  to  the  best  its  capable  of ; 
else  I  wrong  the  good  man,  and  do  not  him  the  right  which  a  rule  and  Charity 
call  for.  Here  is  not  such  a  mere  evenness  for  charity  to  cast  the  balance? 
but  there  are  casting  circumstances  added  to  the  rule  of  piety,  and  charity  in 
general  viz.  1st  here  was  a  school  promoting,  set  on  foot,  and  making  by  his 
friend,  that  was  as  his  own  soul,  where  shall  we  think  a  man  meant  to  act  in 
such  a  work ;  but  where  a  beginning  was  and  with  such  a  friend. 

2ud  The  School  spoken  of  by  John  Barnard  was  not  at  the  making  of  His 
will ;  but  expected  to  be  at  his  wife's  decease  or  soon  after,  and  to  this  it  was 
given ;  this  was  Hopkins, s  School. 

3rd.  The  Town,  the  then  town,  and  the  Court  judged  this  the  school  and  put 
it  into  the  committee's  hands,  to  be  by  them  ordered  forever,  and  there  it  hath 
been  now  about  twenty  years. 

What  reason  now  to  deny  or  question  the  school's  right?  or  what  other  con 
have  more  or  equal  right?  It's  known  that  goodman  Ward  and  Mr.  Clarke's 
donations  were  intended  to  a  Grammar  School,  with  Mr.  Hopkins's  donations. 

4th  If  the  Town  keep  the  property  and  use,  they  give  nothing  and  if  use  and 
property  are  inseparable,  then  the  school  having  the  use,  have  also  the  prop- 
erty, or  nothing.  If  you  say  the  property  and  use  is  theirs  (the  Town's)  and 
they  have  given  neither  use  nor  property  it's  a  poor  gift." 

The  seventh  head  is  argued  thus : 

"  7th  It  is  against  authority.  The  ordinance  of  God,  Rom.  1.3  :  18.  1st. 
Against  the  law  I.  8.  a  most  good  and  wholesome  law,  and  according  to  God. 
2ud  Against  the  County  Courts  order  formerly.  3rd  Against  the  new  order 
when  they  have  again  considered  and  reviewed  it.  4"'  Against  the  President's 
letter,  for  you  put  the  committee  upon  tfcat,  that  not  only  yourselves  have 
regulated  the  contrary,  but  you  know  it's  against  the  laAv,  against  that,  that  is 
done  by  law.  All  the  authority  in  the  country  demands  one  thing — you  com- 
mand the  contrary — and  commanding  the  contrary,  say  there  is  no  law  against 
it,  no  Court, s  act  about  it. 

When  this  comes  into  a  publick  Town  meeting,  some  question  the  order, 
some  deny  it,  others  lead  to  the  denying  it,  who  must  we  obey  now?  .  God  or 
man?  all  the  authority  in  the  country,  or  you?  Should  we  now  do  this  thing 
we  must  say  as  you,  no  law,  no  act,  or  else,  th.o  there  be,  we  will  not,  need 
not  attend  it.  If  no  obedience  to  authority,  how  can  there  be  any  peace  or 
order?  or  any  man  have  his  own?  if  men  will  take  without  law,  against  law. 
against  Courts,  and  teach  others  so  to  do.  and  set  towns  in  a  flame?  Was 
then  one  word  spoken  by  you,  for  the  asserting  and  maintaining  authority, 
when  it  Spoke,  so  as  it  can  no  plainer  or  louder,  in  such  cases,  by  the  ofticer 
at  Clarke, s  arrest  and  this  by  justice  of  the  Peace,  to  act  that,  that  is  not 
justice  nor  prudence,  and  teach  and  lead  others  so  to  do. 

Should  not  we  be  seditious,  if  we  should  do  so?  and  make  others  so.  It  is 
against  the  Town,  not  only  as  rushing  them  on  alt  these1  rocks  of  sin  and  sorrow 


or  punishment  compelling  them  to  break  the  hedge,  that  so  the  serpent  may 
bite  them  whereby  all  the  sin  and  blame  of  the  town  would  be  ours ;  but  is  also 
against  the  Town  profit  for  there  is  no  such  way  of  ease,  and  cheapness  to 
keep  a  school,  as  this,  and  the  great  advantage  of  some  poor  men  to  bring  up 
their  sons  to  learning ;  as  we  see  in  Bro.  Barnard, s  which  may  be  much  to  the 
glory  of  God,  and  their  profit. 

We  should  count  it  sinful  and  simple  for  us  tu  do  these  things  and  hazard 
our  estates,  should  we  do  it  and  when  called  to  account  for  promoting  the 
estate  answer?  the  Town  were  angry,  or  would  have  us  do  it — would  that 
excuse  or  secure  us?  Simple  it  is  because  sinful,  and  also  because  if  we,  and 
every  one  in  the  Town,  should  have  joined  with  you  we  could  not  but  have 
added  to  your  sin ;  but  have  been  no  help. 

Ques.  If  the  question  be  how  doth  it  appear  that  the  estate  of  'goodman 
Ward  and  goodman  Barnard  is  the  Grammar  School  or  Hopkins, s  School 
seeing  the  testators,  in  their  wills,  name  not  Hopkins, s  School  or  a  Grammar 
School,  and  the  town  hath  nowhere  given  it  to  Hopkins, s  or  a  Grammar 
School;  or  if  given  it— not  given  it  forever  as  appears  by  their  act. 

Ans.  As  to  goodman  Ward  I  know  his  expressed  mind  was,  to  join  it  with 
Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate  And  goodman  Barnard,  given  to  a  school  if  any  one  in 
Hadley,  at  his  wife.s  decease.  When  he  died  there  was  an  English  school; 
but  that  was  accounted  none ;  or  none  as  to  his  will  an  end ;  but  it  must  be 
some  higher;  and  the  highest  one  that  came  before  his  wife's  death,  was  this 
Grammar  one,  Hopkins, s  School;  to  which  it  was  then  due  as  an  inheritance 
by  will ;  and  is  not  now  to  be  pluckt  from  this  true  heir,  to  be  given  to  another 
born  about  twenty  years  after,  of  another  kindred  and  inferior  rank  to  the 
causeless '  prejudice  of  this.  Goodman  Barnard, s  heart,  was  one  with  Mr. 
Hopkins.  His  will  saith,  if  a  school  in  Hadley,  at  his  wife.s  death  (having 
been  much  spoken  of  before,  by  Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate)  then  his  estate  is  to 
that  school,  but  this  Hopkins, s  School,  was  in  Hadley  at  her  decease  (and  no 
other  but  that  he  accounts  none) . 

But  secondly.  If  the  will  of  the  donors  have  not  determinately  fixed  it  to 
what  school,  then  what  doth  reason  Speak?  There  is  somewhat  given  to  a 
school  in  a  town  and  not  fixed  to  what  school,  is  the  voice  of  reason  now,  and 
the  publick  good,  that  it  should  be  an  higher  school  or  an  inferior  one?  to  one 
that  is  in  the  place,  when  the  will  saith  it  shall  become  due ;  or  to  one  that  is 
not  of  twenty  years  after;  and  we  know  not  whether  ever  will  be  settled.  Is 
it  to  that  which  this  man,s  friend  set  up,  with  whom  his  heart  was,  or  to 
another,  of  which  he  never  heard,  and  quite  opposite  to  the  mind  and  heart 
of  his  friend?  Religion  and  Charity,  require  one  to  interpret  in  the  best  part 
I  may.  If  it  was  not  fixed  by  the  donors,  nor  the  voice  of  reason  and  the 
publick  good,  and  union  of  men,s  hearts  in  friendship  not  the  right  of  being 
the  first  born,  do  settle  it  to  a  Grammar  School,  not  the  having  the  first 
orderly  possession  of  it,  yet  the  town  hath  given  it  to  and  settled  it  on  Hop- 
kins,s  Grammar  School,  forever.  This  appears  by  their  act  March  26,  1669 
and  by  their  consequent  practice  which  we  evidence  by  these. 

1st.  It  is  evident  by  the  whole  frame  of  the  town  act,  as  well  as  by  testi- 
mony, that  the  very  device,  and  good  work  aimed  at,  was  the  conjoining  of 
estates  for  a  Grammar  School  in  Hadley. 


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This  was  what  Mr.  Goodwin  was  betrnsted  with,  had  on  his  heart  and 
expressed  to  the  town ;  with  this  the  town  joined  giving  to  it  choosing  com- 
mittees and  ordering  the  way  of  managing  it. 

2ndl-v.  It  is  evident  that  in  this  good  device  devised  by  Mi*.  Goodwin  and 
the  town,  the  estate  devised  and  given  to  carry  on  this  good  work  was  all  the 
estate  which  Mr.  Goodwin  had  given  of  Mr.  Hopkins, s  his  donations  or  that 
should  be  given,  or  was  to  come  after  her  decease  viz.  two  hundred  and  fifty 
pounds,  this  was  the  estate  on  Mr.  Goodwin, s  part,  And  on  the  town,s  part, 
it  was  the  school  meadows  they  had  given,  and  any  other  gifts  by  any  other 
donors  that  had  been  or  should  be  given.  The  thing  devised  or  the  end  of 
the  device  was  that  these  estates  all  of  them  should  be  to  the  school. 

grdiy  it  js  evident,  that  the  device  and  End  of  these  agents,  was  the  unit- 
ing to  pursue  the  very  end  and  same  work  of  Mr.  Hopkins  and  his  trustees. 
This  is  first  and  last  Expressed  as  the  end  of  all  this  device  and  conjunction. 
Mr.  Hopkins  and  Mr.  Goodwin, s  device  was  a  Grammar  School  forever  in 
Hadley.  This  plain  end  of  the  donors,  they  make  their  own ;  and  in  express 
words  say  again  and  again  their  device  is  to  satisfy  and  carry  on  and  perfect 
that  device. 

4.thiy  -phe  device  or  end  of  this  good  work  was,  that  the  managing  this 
estate,  and  the  care  and  ordering  of  this  whole  concern ;  should  be  in  the 
hands  of  the  Committee,  by  them  chosen. 

The  Town  and  Mr.  Goodwin,  devised  and  ordered,  that  these  should  man- 
age the  work. 

This  is  their  commitiee — Mr.  Goodwin  and  the  town  do  it  by  them.  They 
devise  to  carry  on  this  work,  which  is  to  be  forever  by  this  committee.  To 
choose  a  committee,  with  power  to  choose  successors  for  this  end.  This  end 
was  the  Grammar  School  perpetually  or  forever ;  when  it  is  said,  if  any  de- 
cease, the  surviving  ones  shall  have  the  sole  power  of  choosing  others  and 
all  this  for  a  perpetual  settlement. 

All  these  estates  are,  by  Mr.  Goodwin  and  the  Town,  put  into  the  hands  of 
the  Committee,  for  prosecuting  Mr.  Hopkins  and  Mr.  Goodwins  end  perpet- 
ually or  forever. 

5th1^.  It  is  evident,  the  device  was,  that  all  the  parts  of  this  estate,  were 
alike  fastened,  and  made  sure  to  this  work. 

1st.  All  were  conjoined  with  Mr.  Hopkins  his  estate,  and  Mr.  Goodwin, s 
donations 

And  2nd  All  was  in  the  hands  of  a  Committee  by  succession ;  and  solely  in 
their  hands  and  choice. 

3rd    This  was  for  perpetuating  a  perpetual  settlement 

6thly.  It  is  beyond  question,  this  was  the  device,  as  appears  by  their  prac- 
tice. It  is  so  put  into  the  hands  of  the  committee  as  this  order  impowers  and 
appoints,  so  hereby  the  committee  take  and  improve  for  this  school,  on  these 
terms,  as  a  perpetual  settlement  so  it  hath  been  improved  the  biggest  part  of 
twenty  years.  It  is  understood  by  the  Court,  so  presented  to  them — so  they 
call  for ;  and  hear  accounts  of  it,  and  ratify  the  same  —  and  now  must  we  hear, 
that  it  is  nor  so? 

ythiy  AH  ^is  is  to  Hopkin,s  School.  And  now  after  all  this  acting  and 
possession,  and  improvement,  must  we  hear  that  it  is  not  the  School, s?  or  not 


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the  Grammar  School, s?  or  not  forever?  Sure  we  must  needs  say,  that  "we 
have  heard  a  language  that  we  understand  not,  hence  altho  it  be  not  in  such 
words,  as  some  would  have  said,  in  some  of  these  men,s  wills  "we 
give  it  to  a  Grammar  or  Hopkins, s  School :  nor  by  the  Town,  we  give  the  estate 
of  Nathaniel  Ward  &c.  to  a  Grammar  School  in  Hadley  forever."  Yet  it  is 
said  in  words  that  are  equivalent — they  are  all  given,  by  the  testators  to  a 
School  in  Hadley.  No  other  School  (Except  some  by  women)  hath  ever  been 
settled  in  Hadley.  The  Town  and  the  court  have  understood  this,  the  School 
and  both  of  them,  put  this  estate,  and  all  the  parts  of  it,  into  the  hands  of 
this  successive  committee  for  a  perpetual  settlement. 

What  shall  now  warrant  the  taking  this  from  the  same?  The  Court  also 
calls  for  the  Committee, s  attending  the  management  of  all  this  estate,  for 
Hopkins  School.  This  we  understand  to  be  their  regulating  of  it." 

More  follows  to  the  same  effect  chiefly  in  the  way  of  recapitulation. 
The  paper  unabridged  is  found  in  the  Book  of  Records  of  Hopkins 
Academy. 

Here  may  be  introduced  Mr.  Partrigg's  Reasons,  drawn  up  at  this 
time  and  perhaps  offered  at  the  hearing  beforenamed. 

MR,  PARTRIGG'S  REASONS. 

Reasons  of  my  dissent  from  the  Committee  in  their  tyeing  up  the  School 
Estate  (Hadley, s  right)  to  a  Grammar  School  only;  viz. 

1st.  Because  the  school  estate  in  all  the  parts  of  it,  is  the  town  of  Hadley. s 
right  and  property. 

The  first  part  I  shall  speak  to  is,  that  given  out  of' "Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate  on 
Court  Record,  Folio  105,  1st  Book. 

The  Honord  Court  sitting  March  30th.  li!(>(.»  have  entered  upon  record  their 
favorable  acceptation  and  approving  such  work  as  the  promoting  learning, 
and  thus  they  enter  the  deed,  which  the  Trustees  to  Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate 
made  for  the  disposure  of  said  estate,  such  and  so  much  to  be  equally  divided 
to  each;  viz.  New  Haven,  Hadley;  and  to  be  disposed  and  managed  in  each 
town  to  a  Grammar  School  etc.  and  appointed  and  impowered  committees  to 
act  upon  it  as  they  shall  see  meet,  or  as  ourselves  might  do  etc.  They  have 
also  the  Court, s  Sanction;  this  in  the  deed. 

When  Hadley  Committee  come  to  act,  as  by  agreement  entered  upon  record 
1st,  they  explain  their  meaning  in  the  deed  aforenamed,  that  said  estate  is  a 
gift  to  Hadley.  See  their  agreement  p.  107  of  that  aforesaid  book  of  record. 
In  page  141  in  said  record  tire  said  estate  is  declared,  as  the  Court, s  sense,  to 
be  to  the  Town  of  Hadley  two  or  three  times  over. 

2»<Jiy.  The  town  of  Hadley  act  upon  it.  either  as  having  aright  aforesaid,  or 
being  intrusted,  all  the  aforesaid  shows  rather,  that  they  acted  upon  their 
right;  as  also  they  improve  part  of  the  Committee  (by  their  choice)  and  said 
Committee  receive  and  make  discharges  to  as  to  said  estate  which  the  Court 
confirms.  See  p.  141. 

3rdiy  The  Town  act  accompting  said  estate  their  own  right;  and  there- 
fore add  some  of  their  own  estate  to  the  completing  of  their  design;  which, 


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doubtless,  they  would  not,  nor  could  not,  in  prudence  have  done,  had  they  no 
right,  and  disposnre  as  aforesaid.  See  the  lands  and  payments  they  made 
following. 

2ud.  Ft.  of  School  estate,  is  those  meadows  given  by  the  town  to  said  use 
of  a  Grammar  School,  is  the  town,s  right  for  the  ends  aforesaid;  because  it  is 
not  liable  to  be  carried  out  of  said  town,  it  is  to  be  improved  in  the  town  for 
a  school.  2'"1  Town  grants  or  appointments  of  any  estate  to  their  own  use 
must  be  considered  as  they  are ;  which  seems  to  be  no  otherwise  than  a  living 
man,s  will;  subject  to  alteration,  especially  the  grant  being  made  to  no  other 
use  or  right  but  their  own.  See  their  Grant  folio  107  of  said  record. 

3rd  Ft.  Nathaniel  Ward,s  grant  of  estate  (in  his  last  will)  to  learning  in 
Hadley  is  Hadle}r,s  right,  because  the  words  in  his  will  on  the  aforesaid  record 
folio  39  are  (I  give  to  the  town  of  Hadley  after  my  wife,s  etc.  for  a  school 
etc.)  his  will  being  an  approved  will,  according  to  the  law  of  this  jurisdiction ; 
and  the  words  positive  makes  it  a  firm  right.  A  condition  there  is,  but  it  no 
ways  weakens  but  strengthens  the  right;  the  debt  to  Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate 
being  satisfied  and  issued. 

4th.  Ft.  Goodman  Barnard, s  gift  (in  this  last  will)  to  learning  in  Hadley, 
is  Hadley, s  right,  which  is  in  these  words  (in  his  will  on  record  folio  37)  to 
the  use  and  towards  the  maintaining  a  school,  and  further  explains  his  wrords 
and  also  that  land  I  give  to  the  school  in  Hadley ;  but  if  not  a  school  in  Had- 
ley at  my  wife,s  decease,  then  to  four  poor  men  in  Hadley,  till  a  school  is  set 
up.  It  is  true  the  words  are  dark  in  the  grant  giving  it  to  a  school  and  not 
mentioning  what  school,  but  in  the  latter  clause  ties  it  to  a  school  in  Hadley, 
if  a  school  is  set  up,  or  to  four  poor  men.  So  that  it  is  clear  the  intent  and 
meaning  of  his  will  is  giving  it  to  Hadley  in  case  they  set  up  a  school. 

5th  Ft.  Widow  Barnard, s  grant,  on  her  will  is  Hadley, s  right.  The  grant 
is  in  these  words ;  I  do  also  give  to  the  use  and  furtherance  of  learning  in 
this  town  of  Hadley  £4.  Here,  no  doubt,  but  the  intent  was  to  the  town  for 
that  end  and  no  other — they  having  the  dispose  of  those  concerns  within 
themselves. 

0th.  Ft.  Mr.  Henry  Clarke,  Gentleman,  his  grant  for  his  part  of  his  estate 
to  learning  or  otherwise,  is  Hadley, s  right,  and  it  is  declared  in  these  words 
in  his  will,  folio  165.  I  give  my  nine  acre  lot  in  Hockanum  and  two  acres 
and  an  half  of  my  lot  in  forlorn  etc.  to  the  town  of  Hadley,  and  upon  condi- 
tions etc.  it  is  to  Hopkins, s  School.  These  conditions  are;  if  the  committee 
meet  with  no  disturbance:  but  in  case  they  do,  then  he  doubles  his  grant  to 
the  town  ;  saying  then  it  shall  be  improved  for  the  good  of  the  town,  and  thus 
the  trustees  are  bound — though  there  is  a  respect  to  Hopkins, s  School;  but  in 
case  that  be  not  promoted,  or  flourish  not,  then;  once  and  again  lie  says  it 
shall  be  to  Hadley  town,  and  it  seems  there  was  engagement  to  it  by  Mr. 
Clarke.  And  would  Hadley  in  reason  have  laid  out  so  much  as  they  have 
besides  their  land  aforesaid  added  from  time  to  time  had  it  not  been  their 
own  concern?  viz. 

When  Mr.  Watson  was  school-master  £20  per  annum  for  three  years  £60. 
To  Mr.  Younglove  for  seven  years  an  addition  upon  scholars,  about 

£10  yearly  70 


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Towards  building  the  mill  at  50 

To  Mr.  Russell  two  years  at  least  £10  per  annum  20 

More  helping  at  mill  several  times  at  10 

£210 

In  answer  to  this  that  said  estate  was  tied  to  a  Grammar  school  and  com- 
mitted to  the  School  Committee  for  that  end.  It  is  true  Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate, 
by  them  that  gave  the  deed  to  Hadley  was  so  tied ;  but  it  is  questionable  whether 
the  first  donor  did  so  tie  it ;  and  as  to  this  estate  bound  to  be  improved  as 
aforesaid  it  seems  to  be  spent  and  by  Providence  lost  viz.  This  estate,  at 
first  delivered  to  Hadley  by  Mr.  Goodwin,  was  in  specie  as  followeth. 
Imprimis  in  a  house  sold  them  which  Mr.  Watson  had  accompted  for  and  work 
done  for  himself  at  £113-9-7 

In  a  mill  built  and  work  about  it  and  the  mill  house  besides  the 

£50  the  town  allowed  175-0-0 

In  fencing  at  26-4-0 


Goodman  Coleman  Leger 
Wid.  Barnard  Leger 
Mr.  Westwood  Leger 

£336-13-7 
PER  CONTRA 

Said  House  and  work  alienated  to  Mr.  Watson  113-9-7 
The  mill  and  all  work  about  it  some  of  it  lost  and  sold  to  the  Town 

except  £15  in  Irons  and  Stones  160 

The  aforesaid  allowance  by  the  town  at  210 

seven  years  rent  of  the  school  land  at  £20  a  year  140 

School  land  rent,  since  for  3  years  besides  rents  of  the  mill  at  £10  30 

653-9-7 

By  the  aforesaid  account  it  appears  that  Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate  and  all  others 
that  gave  moveable  estate,  as  to  the  specie  of  it,  is  wholly  spent  and  lost  and 
almost  double  the  money  with  it;  which  the  town  and  the  town,s  land  hath 
allowed  to  that  use. 

And  name  the  thing  within  the  limits  of  Hadley  that  can  be  called  Mr. 
Hopkins, s  Estate,  and  hath  and  doth  bring  in  an  income  to  said  school  or  to 
Hadley ;  except  the  rents  of  the  mill,  which  being  lost  and  spent  as  aforesaid 
— and  I  make  no  mention  of  it  in  the  aforesaid  account.  As  also  £15  which 
is  yet  due  from  the  mill,  for  the  old  irons  and  stone,  which  if  it  be  or  be  not 
the  town,s  right,  it  is  by  them  dearly  bought,  being  but  .£15  for  £50  they  laid 
out  upon  said  mill.  But  if  it  be  said  there  is  £44  due  from  the  mill  and  it  is 
an  intermixed  estate  the  aforesaid  £50  will  balance,  if  not,  let  the  balance  of 
the  abovesaid  accompt;  viz.  £316 — 16 — 0  do  it.  So  that  the  remaining  estate 
that  brings  in  any  income  towards  schooling,  is  the  town,s  land  and  those 
lands  in  Hadley  given  by  the  aforesaid  donors. 

Hereupon  the  town  have  applied  themselves  to  the  Committee  of  the  School, 
to  improve  the  estate,  viz.  the  income  of  it,  to  English  schooling,  till  said 


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estate,  or  the  town  be  in  a  capacity  to  obtain  and  procure  higher  learning. 
And  the  Committee  all  but  myself,  refuse;  and  as  to  myself  I  would  have 
yielded  for  reasons  following. 

R.  1st.  Our  Pastor  lays  it  down  from  that  9  Heb.  1C,  17  There  is  no  alter- 
ation the  testator  being  dead,  And  the  donors  of  Hopkins, s  Estate  tyeing  his 
estate  up  to  a  Grammar  School ;  and  therefore  it  must  be  improved  to  no  other 
school,  to  this  I  answer  and  make  use  of  it  as  a  reason  aforesaid.  Mr.  Hop- 
kins,s  Estate  and  the  estate  of  those  other  donors  that  gave  moveable  estate 
is  spent  and  lost  as  in  the  abovesaid  accompt.  And  consider  all  sums  more 
of  other  estate  and  when  the  thing  given  is  wholly  gone,  the  conditions  as  to 
the  using  of  it  is  also  gone  and  of  no  strength,  there  being  nothing  to  use. 

R.  2nd.  As  to  Goodman  Ward,s,  Goodman  Barnard, s  and  his  wife,s  Mr. 
Clarke, s  donations  aforementioned,  no  one  of  them  is  absolutely  tied  to  a 
Grammar  School ;  but  to  learning,  or  a  school  in  general.  And  therefore  if 
the  using  the  Estate  be  to  an  English  school  that  is  tied  to  a  Grammar  School 
is  a  breach  of  the  same  rule.  The  tye  to  a  Grammar  School  was  only  in  Mr. 
Hopkins, s  estate  by  the  donor  which  is  ended  with  the  estate;  and  the  estate 
given  by  the  aforesaid  donors  under  no  such  tye.  See  my  aforesaid  recital 
of  their  grants 

It  is  pleaded  yet  further,  that  the  town  have  passed  over  their  own  land, 
and  all  these  donations  to  a  Grammar  School  and  to  the  use  of  the  Committee 
in  succession  forever.  To  this  I  answer  (as  a  reason  also) 

1st.  if  the  town  have  done  so,  by  the  aforesaid  argument  taken  from  9  Heb. 
16,  17  they  sinned  in  it  because  the  donations  are  not  given  to  a  Grammar 
School.  But  whether  it  be  a  sin  or  not,  I  hope  the  repentance  which  seems 
to  be  evident  may  be  accepted  and  the  estate  set  at  liberty,  according  to  the 
will  of  the  donator  and  the  earnest  desire  of  the  Town.  But  here  see  what 
the  town  have  done  as  to  their  donations  and  their  own  land,  in  passing  them 
over  to  a  Grammar  School  as  is  pleaded. 

In  January  14,  1(566  the  town  did  grant  the  school  meadowrs  to  a  Grammar 
School,  as  an  addition  to  Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate  for  the  ends  aforesaid;  but 
inasmuch  as  Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate  is  gone,  and  there  is  no  estate  left  but 
these  lands  and  the  lands  the  aforesaid  donors  gave,  the  town  may  have  rea- 
son to  alter  their  order,  and  if  they  do  I  know  not  any  sin  in  it  in  as  much  as 
it  is  their  owrn  concern. 

The  Town  of  Hadley  never  gave  away  their  School  land  so  as  it  can  be 
commanded  away  from  a  School  or  learning  in  Hadley.  And  if  a  Grammar 
School  that  they  first  order  cannot  be  obtained  according  to  their  judgment; 
they  may  put  it  to  any  other  learning ;  viz.  an  English  School  and  this  is  plain 
from  the  words  in  this  grant,  that  they  have  put  it  into  the  Committees  hands 
for  the  use  of  the  School  aforesaid  or  learning ;  therefore  if  the  Committee 
do  not  keep  up  a  Grammar  or  other  School  for  learning  the  town  may  have 
just  cause  to  regulate  the  business  to  such  learning  as  can  be  obtained,  which 
is  all  the  town  have  desired,  that  if  we  cannot  have  a  grammar  with  the 
income  of  the  estate,  let  us  have  such  schooling  as  it  will  obtain. 

2nd  And  as  to  the  other  lands,  it  seems  by  the  order  to  be  tied  to  a  Gram- 
mar School  neither  by  the  donators  nor  the  town ;  for  the  town  say  they  pass 


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over  all  gifts  and  grants  that  shall  be  given  from  time  to  time  to  the  use  of 
the  school  aforesaid.  These  donations  were  not  so  given 

Further  the  order  says  or  learning  for  and  in  the  town  of  Hartley  and  if  it 
be  for  and  in  the  town  of  Hartley,  then  it  is  nor  given  from  themselves  I  know 
no  more  binding  in  a  town  or  for  concerns  of  the  town,  when  the  propriety 
is  given  to  no  particular  in  the  town,  nor  no  other,  but  to  the  use  of  the 
town,  but  said  orders  may  be  and  are  usually,  altered  according  to  the  order 
of  the  town,  as  well  as  any  particular  person  may  alter  his  design,  and  no 
account  to  be  given.  Especially  when  the  alteration  is  very  small,  if  any 
thing  from  the  order;  viz.  they  having  reserved  for  learning;  to  improve  it 
so  if  need  be;  and  as  to  passing  it  to  the  Committee  successively,  it  is  not 
their  propriety  thereby  but  for  the  ends  and  use  aforesaid,  in  which  if  they 
fail  the  town  and  no  other  may  call  them  to  accompt  for  it.  Especially  when 
Mr.  Hopkins, s  estate  which  called  for  a  mutual  choice  of  a  Committee  by  the 
Town  and  his  Trustees  :  that  part  is  gone ;  and  that  only  left  upon  which  the 
town  instructed  their  part(of  the  Committee;  and  when  by  their  order  there 
can  be  nothing  acted  but  by  both  parts  of  the  Committee  jointly  and  together 
and  to  the  number  of  five  persons  so  and  so  qualified  &c.  which  is  three  or 
four  times  mentioned.  And  if  said  Committee  do  nor  act  according  to  the 
mind  of  the  town  for  learning,  or  jointly  again,  the  town  may  lawfully  take 
care,  and  give  further  orders  about  it.  Especially  when  they  answer  the  lawr 
of  the  Commonweath  in  Grammar  or  English  Schooling,  their  families  being 
but  about  fifty 

R.  4th  This  reason  is  from  the  former  State  of  the  town  considered  with 
their  present  State  since  which  order  was  made  between  thirty  or  forty  able 
householders  (to  promote^  learning  in  the  highest  degrees  here  mentioned) 
are  now  in  their  graves  and  the  greater  part  of  their  survivors  in  a  poor  con- 
dition to  do  anything  towards  a  school :  and  nigh  one  third  of  the  lands  in 
the  town  in  tenants  hands  which  take  little  care  to  promote  such  designs,  as 
also  the  greatest  part  of  the  children,  such  poor  men,s,  that  cannot  pay  any- 
thing towards  schooling  the  children ;  much  less  bring  them  up  to  Grammar 
learning,  so  that  there  is  not  one  that  I  Know  of  now  that  pretend  to  Gram- 
mar learning  except  two  that  are  brought  up  at  their  parents  particular 
charges ;  the  school  having  been  so  uncertain  as  is  we  Know,  Grammar  School 
masters  so  hard  to  settle,  that  as  soon  as  ever  one  is  settled,  one  place  or 
other  calls  them  off,  and  so  it  hath  been  ever  since  the  first,  except  with  Mr. 
Watson  who  I  understand  went  away  upon  some  difference  betwixt  him  and 
our  pastor 

That  we  have  been  in  clanger  several  times  to  be  presented  for  want  of  a 
school,  notwithstanding  the  great  provisions  that  hath  been  laid  in  upon  that 
accompt  in  Hartley  as  aforesaid. 

And  now  the  town  only  desire  to  use  their  own  estate,  in  the  vacancy  of  a 
Grammar  School,  for  an  English,  as  I  suppose  their  order  will  bear  them  out 
in  it,  as  aforesaid.  It  is  now  twenty  years  it  hath  been  improved,  I  do  not 
desire  to  reflect  upon  the  success  it  is  so  well  known.  But  the  improvement 
of  the  school  estate  upon  English  learning  by  a  grammar  school  master,  and 
by  an  English  school  master.  I  cannot  see  the  difference  as  to  the  end  if  that 


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be  viz.  English  learning  or  writing.  But  this,  he  that  can  teach  grammar,  is 
surely  better  fitted  to  teach  English,  than  lie  that  hath  no  grammar  in  him. 
But  the  ground  of  all  this  is  :  if  no  grammar,  such  poor  help  as  we  have, 
when  better  cannot  be  obtained;  that  we  have  not  half  years  and  whole  years 
vacancies,  under  pretence  of  grammar  schooling;  and  so  schooling  fail  in  a 
great  measure.  For  I  suppose  it  will  be  granted  that  the  learning  of  any 
trade  or  science,  is  best  insinuated  by  constancy  in  attendance  to  it. 

If  we  cannot  have  polishers  for  the  stone  let  the  ruff  hewers  set  to  it,  to 
prepare  while  polishers  come. 

A  letter  was  written  concerning  these  matters  by  Governor  Dudley 
to  Mr.  Russell,  without  date,  but  it  must  have  been  sometime  between 
May  27th  and  Dec.  26th,  1686,  as  follows  : 

GOVERNOR  DUDLEY'S  LETTER  TO  MR.  RUSSELL. 

RKvd  SIR 

I  lately  received  your  very  solicitous  letter  referring  to  your  free 
school  in  Hadley ;  and  am  very  sorry  that,  while  your  inclination  and  opinion 
is  so  good  and  well  rendered,  yon  should  seem  to  stand  like  Athanasius,  con- 
tra totum  munclum.  But  right  is  too  strong  to  suffer  any  force  or  compul- 
sion long ;  but  it  will  break  loose  and  prevail.  In  the  meantime  I  am  deeply 
sorry  that,  the  pious  and  charitable  device  of  Mr.  Hopkins  should  be  in  any 
manner  perverted  or  allayed,  or  the  occasion  of  a  difference  or  misunderstand- 
ing in  that  good  place. 

My  opinion  such  as  it  is  I  am  willing  to  offer  you,  and  as  willing  that  you 
communicate  to  those  who  may  either  value  it,  or  to  whom  it  may  be  a  serv- 
ice. However  yon  need  not  in  this  matter  care  upon  the  reputation  of  any 
person;  but  upon  known  maxims  in  law  and  valid  cases  which  I  presume,  no 
good  man  with  you  will  be  so  hardy  as  to  oppose.  However  I  am  sure  such 
can  harm  none  but  themselves.  Those  rules  that  occur  without  the  turning 
to  authors  for  the  very  words  are  such  as  these  :  the  words  of  a  deed  are  the 
deed ;  but  the  intent  of  a  will  is  a  will.  And  the  true  intent  and  meaning  of 
the  donor,  in  every  device,  is  carefully  to  be  required  by  the  ordinary  and 
pursued  by  the  executor.  That  devices  and  bequests  to  pious  uses  are,  of  all 
others  most  sacred,  and  to  be  pursued  and  advanced  by  persons  entrusted ; 
and  in  no  case  or  manner  to  be  slipt  or  narrowed  but  to  be  extended  and 
enlarged  both  for  serviceableness  and  manner  of  improvement,  as  far  as  the 
good  and  sound  construction  of  the  will,  will  in  any  way  bear. 

That  executors  or  Trustees  being  thereto  impowered  making  their  declara- 
tion and  particular  designation  to  a  device  at  large  to  pious  uses,  is  to  be 
holden  good;  and  being  once  done  and  reasonably  determined  is  not  by  them- 
selves to  be  altered. 

That  all  such  trustees  and  managers  of  estates  bequeathed  to  pious  uses, 
are  from  time  to  time  accountable  to  the  ordinary  or  their  superior  :  (in  whose 
room  our  County  Courts  have  always  stood)  and  in  case  of  breach  or  devia- 
tion are  to  be  regulated  and  restored  into  the  right  way.  That  whatever  such 
trustees  shall  do  contrary  to  law,  to  embezzle  the  estate,  lower  the  profits, 
divert  the  use,  or  in  any  case  whatever  part  with  the  freehold,  whence  the 


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maintenance  of  the  pious  use  should  arise,  and  upon  which  it  is  now  legally 
settled,  'tis  of  itself  perfectly  void  and  of  none  effect.  And  they  themselves 
for  such  breaches  are  liable  to  censure  for  their  reformation ;  and  finally  for 
a  removal;  and  other  meet  persons  betrusted,  who  shall  more  faithfully  man- 
age the  same.  That  when  gifts  to  publick  uses  are  originally  impracticable 
and  afterwards  useless  or  unprofitable  in  the  place  from  the  manner  of  the 
donation,  they  shall  now  neither  be  diverted  to  any  more  private  or  less  prof- 
itable use;  but  to  more  publick  and  greater;  and  that  often  by  the  authority 
of  the  King  and  Parliament.  That  gifts  and  grants  of  particular  persons  or 
Committees  to  any  publick  pious  use,  when  the  grant  is  duly  and  effectually 
made  in  law,  cannot  by  any  means  by  themselves  be  ever  revoked,  but  will 
abide  and  remain  in  all  respects  effectual ;  and  are  thenceforward  become  a 
publick  estate,  liable  to  all  the  rules  and  methods  of  management  accordingly. 

From  all  that  is  above :  I  am  of  opinion  that  the  trustees  of  Mr.  Hopkins, s 
Estate,  have  descended  to  the  lowest  and  most  restrained  exposition  of  the 
bequest,  of  the  most  pious  and  charitable  donors  in  assigning  the  same  to  a 
free  Latin  School ;  and  have  conveyed  it  as  far  up  the  river  as  could  modestly 
be  desired  when  they  brought  it  to  Hadley. 

And  what  they  have  done  therein  and  the  town  have  added  in  disposing  it 
into  lands  streams  and  mills  can  by  no  legal  methods  ever  be  altered.  And 
that  therefore  the  order  of  the  County  Courts,  in  all  points  is  good  and  just 
and  of  authority ;  save  in  the  last  little  hanck  thereof  viz.  in  the  meantime  to 
be  improved  &c.  which  I  am  of  opinion  saving  always  a  great  deference  to 
the  gentlemen  of  that  Court,  was  an  inconvenient  as  well  as  illegal  conces- 
sion, devised  to  have  given  a  present  easure  to  your  earnest  people,  which 
therefore  hath  the  usual  effect  and  issue  of  such  method,  to  put  forward  the 
irregular  desire  of  the  less  thinking  people  to  obtain  their  impetuous  resolve 
th'o  thereby  to  the  after  destruction  of  the  gifts  and  which  without  any 
threatening,  will  end  in  the  perfect  removal  of  its  improvement  in  your  town  : 
And  perhaps  bring  it  here  to  this  College,  or  some  less  profitable  foundation  : 
all  which  I  pray  God  to  prevent  for  the  honor  of  the  Donors,  Trustees,  Town 
of  Hadley  and  the  good  and  sound  profession  of  the  true  religion. 

If  anything  in  this  hasty  paper  may  be  of  service  to  your  good  people,  I 
shall  be  glad.  If  any  rest  not  in  it,  at  your  next  desire,  I  may  further  pro- 
ceed to  communicate  the  matter  to  the  Council  while  out  of  true  respect  to 
your  good  neighbors,  and  unwillingness  to  discover  their  present  ill  humor  I 
have  foreborne.  I  humbly  ask  your  prayers  and  blessings  and  am  Sir 

Your  faithful  servant, 

J.  DUDLEY. 
Original  in  Judd  papers  with  J.  R.  Trumbull. 

PRESIDENT  AND  COUNCILS  ORDER  DECEMBER  8,  168fi. 
By  the  Honorable,  the  President  and  Council  of  His  Majesty, s  Territory 
and  Dominion  of  New  England,  in  America.  Upon  the  perusal  of  the  return 
made  by  Major  Pynchon  and  the  Committee  for  Hadley  School.  The  Presi- 
dent and  Council  do  order  that  the  Committee  for  the  Hopkins, s  school,  be 
and  remain  the  Feoffees  of  the  Grammar  School  in  said  town.  And  that  Mr. 


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Partrigg  be  and  is  hereby  dismissed  from  any  further  service  in  that  matter. 
And  that  the  said  Committee  make  report  of  present  Estate  of  said  Mr.  Hop- 
kins^ and  other  Donations  to  the  school  (which  having  been  orderly  annexed 
to  the  Grammar  School  and  hereby  continued  to  that)  unto  the  next  County 
Court  of  Hampshire;  who  are  hereby  impowered,  to  supply  the  place  of  Mr. 
Partrigg,  with  some  meet  person,  in  Hadley,  and  that  the  said  Court  do  find 
out,  and  order  some  method  for  the  payment  of  Boltwood,s  expenses  upon  the 
mill ;  that  the  the  mill,  Farm  and  other  land  given  to  the  school  may  return  to 
that  publick  use.  The  President  and  Council,  hereby  declaring  it  to  be  beyond 
the  power  of  the  Town  of  Hadley, or  any  other,  to  divide  any  of  the  lands  or 
estates  or  the  said  mills,  streams  or  privileges  thereof  (which  are  legally 
determined  to  this  said  Grammar  school)  to  any  other  use  whatsoever. 

The  President  and  Council  judging  the  particular  gifts  in  that  Town  a  good 
foundation  for  a  Grammar  School  both  for  themselves  and  the  whole  Coun- 
try.* And  that  the  Grammar  School  can'be  no  otherwise  interpreted,  but  to  be 
a  school  h olden  by  a  master  capable  to  instruct  children,  and  lit  them  for 
the  university. 

Council  House  Boston,  December  8,  1686. 

By  order  EDWARD  RANDOLPH,  Secretary. 

This  is  a  true  copy  of  the  order  of  Council,  sent  me  by  Mr.  Randolph,  taken 
out  of  the  original,  which  is  to  lodge  with  myself,  till  the  County  Court  and 
then  to  be  there  presented. 

Attest,  JOHN  PYNCHON. 

Found  in  the  records  of  Hopkins  Academy. 

This  order  of  the  President  and  Council  moved  the  school  commit- 
tee to  make  report  to  the  next  County  Court  in  Hampshire.  The 
doings  of  the  court  are  found  in  the  paper  that  follows. 


ORDER  OF  THE  SESSIONS  JUNE  8,  1687. 

The  Honorable  the  President  and  the  Council  by  their  order  of  December 
8,  1686,  having  taken  cognizance  of  the  estate  of  the  Grammar  School  in 
Hadley,  called  Hopkins, s  School;  ordering  that  the  Committee  for  the  said 
Hopkins, s  School  to  be  and  remain  the  feoffees  of  the  Grammar  Scool  in 
said  town ;  except  Mr.  Partrigg,  whom  they  dismissed  from  that  service ;  and 
ordered  the  next  County  Court  in  Hampshire,  to  take  care  for  supplying  the 
place  of  Mr.  Partrigg,  with  some  other  meet  person,  referring  the  case  of 
the  School  and  particularly  the  Committee  to  make  report  of  the  estate  of 
Mr.  Hopkins  and  other  donations  thereto,  to  the  next  Court  in  Hampshire 
which  the  said  Committee  have  now  accordingly  done.  And  the  Honorable 
the  President  and  Council,  declaring  the  Donations  to  have  been  orderly 
annexed  to  the  Grammar  School  in  Hadley,  and  that  they  are  to  be  continued 
to  that  service.  And  having  ordered  the  said  Court  to  find  out,  and  order 
some  method  for,  the  payment  of  Boltwoood,s  expenses,  upon  the  mill,  that 
the  mill  with  the  Farm  and  other  lands  given  to  the  school,  may  return  to 
that  publick  use. 

*It  is  in  question  whether,  in  the  original  of  which  this  is  a  copy,  the  word  was  country 
or  county. 


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The  premises  considered,  and  the  committee  of  the  said  Hopkins, s  School 
viz.  Mr.  John  Russell,  Capt.  Aaron  Cooke,  Joseph  Kellogg  and  Samuel  Porter 
(now  settled  by  the  President  and  Council  the  Feoffees  of  the  said  School) 
appearing  at  this  Court  of  Quarter  Sessions  for  the  County,  as  the  County 
Court  in  Hampshire  and  presenting  the  Estate  of  Hopkins  and  other  dona- 
tions to  said  school,  that  they  be  settled  to  it  as  formerly  they  have  been,  by 
order  of  former  County  Courts  in  Hampshire,  and  particularly  by  the  last 
County  Court  in  Springfield  in  September,  1686.  All  which  this  Session  will 
approve  of,  and  considering  the  President  and  Council  judges  the  gifts  a  good 
Foundation  for  a  Grammar  School  for  the  whole  Country,  and  having  the  con- 
currence of  his  excellency,  our  Honorable  Governor,  therewith,  as  hinting  the 
same  to  the  worshipful  Judge  of  this  Court,  that  it  is  not  in  the  power  of  the 
Town  of  Hadley,  or  any  person  to  divert  any  Donations,  Lands,  Mills,  Streams 
or  Estates,  given,  determined  or  employed  to  the  Grammar  School  there ;  to  any 
other  use  whatsoever.  Wherefore  this  Court  do  advise  the  Town  of  Hadley, 
or  such  as  acted  in  their  behalf  (only  one  alone  viz.  Mr.  Partrigg  appearing) 
who  thr'o  inadvertence  or  precipitancy  have  entered  upon  the  school  estate 
taking  part  of  the  donations  into  their  own  hands,  for  an  English  School 
(which  may  not  be  allowed  disjunct  from  a  Grammar  School)  to  return  and 
restore  the  whole  profits  thereof  to  the  former  Committee  viz.  Mr.  John 
Russell,  Aaron  Cooke,  Joseph  Kellogg  and  Samuel  Porter  now  the  Feoffees  of 
the  Grammar  School  called  Hopkins, s  School.  Mr.  Hopkins, s  given  by  him 
to  promote  humane  literature,  and  declared  by  his  Trustees,  to  be  for  and  to 
a  Grammar  School  which  can  be  no  otherwise  interpreted,  as  the  President 
and  Council  have  declared ;  but  to  be  a  school  holden  by  a  master  capable  to 
instruct  youth  for  the  university.  And  therefore  it  is  misapplied,  and  abused 
by  such  persons  in  Hadley,  who  have  acted  in  it,  to  employ  it  otherwise  and 
so  ought  speedily  by  them  to  be  returned.  And  Mr.  Partrigg  saying :  they 
desired  to  be  understood,  as  not  detaining,  or  holding  the  estate ;  but  leaving 
to  the  Court  to  order.  It  is  therefore,  hereby  ordered,  that  those  persons 
in  Hadley,  who  have  anyways  meddled,  or  intrenched  upon  the  school  estate 
thereof,  which  ought  to  be  managed  by  John  Russell,  Aaron  Cooke,  Joseph 
Kellogg  and  Samuel  Porter,  the  Feoffees  of  the  said  school,  (to  whom  this 
Court  of  Sessions  [according  to  order]  have  now  by  the  consent  and  choice 
of  the  rest  of  the  Committee,  added  Chiliab  Smith  of  Hadley,  to  make  up  the 
number  of  five  Feoffees)  do  deliver  up  all  the  estate  they  have  entered  on 
forthwith ;  into  the  hands  or  ordering  of  the  Feoffees  on  penalty  of  all  damage 
that  may  come  to  themselves  by  neglect  thereof.  And  that  Samuel  Boltwood, 
who  hath  the  school  mill  in  his  improvement,  which  was  firstly  built  by  Mr. 
Hopkins's  estate,  for  the  school,  do  likewise  deliver  up  said  mill  and  appur- 
tenances, to  the  Feoffees  aforesaid;  who  are  to  take  it  into  their  hands 
and  improvement,  for  the  maintenance  of  the  school  to  which  it  belongs. 
And  for  what  Samuel  Boltwood  hath  expended  upon  the  repairing  or  nfcw 
building  of  it,  he  yielding  to  resign  it  in  case  he  be  paid  what  he  hath  lien 
out ;  if  the  toll  or  rent  since  it  hath  been  in  his  Father,s  and  his  hands  have 
not  sufficiently  paid  their  just  expense  upon  a  moderate  due  accompt.  Then 
the  Feoffees  of  the  school  to  allow  further,  according  as  they  shall  see  just 


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and  reasonable;  by  continuing  the  rent  of  the  mill  to  Mm,  or  otherwise,  till 
he  be  paid  what  is  meet  he  should  have.  And  in  case  the  Feoffees  and  Samuel 
Boltwood  come  not  to  an  agreement  concerning  it  between  themselves  within 
thirty  days,  That  then  the  consideration  of  what  the  said  Boltwood  should 
and  ought  to  have  ;f  or  what  estate  he  or  his  Father  expended  upon  the  rebuild- 
ing of  the  said  school  mill  be  determined  by  Mr.  John  Allis,  (whom  this  Court 
appoints)  and  one  such  man  as  the  Feoffees  of  said  school  shall  choose  and 
appoint  together  with  one  such  man  as  Samuel  Boltwood  shall  choose  or 
appoint ;  which  three  men  or,  at  least  two  of  them  are  to  give  in  their  award 
concerning  it,  at  the  next  Quarter  Sessions,  on  the  first  Tuesday  of  Septem- 
ber, which  if  neglected,  we  advise  and  direct  the  Feoffees  to  a  prosess  in  a 
course  of  law,  that  they  may  be  in  a  capacity,  to  settle  a  school  master  there 
according  to  the  intent  of  the  Donations ;  which  if  the  whole  estate  be  all 
got  together  and  all  improved,  we  hope  may  maintain  a  Grammar  School, 
with  a  small  yearly  addition  thereto,  by  th,e  Town  of  Hadley  who  may  be  well 
benefltted  by  the  same  school  master  to  teach  their  children. 

Further,  in  case  the  Town  of  Hadley  or  those  that  acted  for  the  Town,  do 
actually  deliver  up  the  estate  thev  entered  upon,  unto  the  Feoffees  and  do 
forthwith  declare  it  by  delivering  it  into  their  hands,  wTe  propose  it  to  the 
Feoffees  to  allow  them  the  half  of  sixteen  pounds  they  engaged  to  a  school 
master  or  otherwise  as  the  Feoffees  see  meet. 

This  is  also  a  true  Copy  of  the  original  at  Quarter  Sessions  Court  held  at 
Northampton  in  his  Majesty s  territory  of  New  England  Northampton,  this 
8th  of  June.  1687. 

Attested  by  James  Cornish,  Clerk. 

The  Town  in  compliance  with  the  order  of  the  court  passed  this 
vote  in  which  it  is  easy  to  read  the  spirit  of  the  voters. 

TOWN  VOTE  AUGUST  29,  1687. 

Voted  by  the  Town  that  the  Lands  seized  and  taken  into  their  own  hands 
with  reference  to  an  English  school  by  their  vote  August  23rd,  1686,  wanting 
that  formality  in  the  seizure,  as  might  have  been,  the  Town  do  now  let  fall 
their  said  seisure  leaving  said  lands  in  the  hands  of  the  Committee  as  for- 
merly ;  withal  reserving  a  liberty  to  themselves  and  successors  to  make  claim 
and  plea  according  to  law  at  anytime  for  the  future,  for  what  may  appear  to 
be  their  right  in  the  Premises. 

After  the  vote  of  the  Town  Aug.  29,  1687,  the  court  of  sessions 
sent  the  following  letter  to  the  selectmen  of  Hadley,  March  7,  1688, 
to  be  communicated  to  the  town.  The  members  of  the  court  were 
John  Pynchon,  John  Holyoke,  Joseph  Hawley,  Capt.  Aaron  Cooke 
of  Hadley,  Lieut  John  Allis. 

HONORED  FRIENDS  : 

Having  had  a  sight  of  the  vote  of  the  town  of  Hadley  of 
Aug.  29,  1687.  in  way  of  compliance  (as  we  suppose)  with  the  advise  of  the 
Court  of  Sessions,  held  at  Northampton,  June  7,  1687,  we  judge  meet  to  let 
you  understand  our  sense  of  it,  that  it  is  far  short  of  what  we  expected  and 
advised  to  being  at  best  lean  in  itself,  if  not  a  justifying  of  yourselves  in 


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your  former  precipitant,  illegal  entering  upon  the  school  estate,  rather  than 
a  delivering  it  up  to  the  committee  as  you  were  directed  actually  to  do,  and 
forthwith  to  declare  it  under  the  hands  of  those  that  had  acted  in  entering 
thereon ;  and  presuming  upon  your  readiness  so  to  do  it,  we  proposed  it  to 
the  committee  or  feoffees,  if  they  saw  cause,  to  allow  one-half  of  the  £16  that 
was  engaged  toward  a  school  master.  But  what  you  have  done  being  so  short 
of  that  directed  to  and  so  worded  as  speaks  your  insubjection  to  authority, 
especially  in  conjunction  with  your  other  actings,  we  must  declare  it  no  ways 
convenient  the  committee  should  allow  any  part  of  the  said  16£  and  that  you 
are  accountable  for  your  perverseness  toward  the  school  affairs,  and  for  your 
slighting  of  such  who  have  had  more  regard  to  your  own  good  and  interest  than 
yourselves.  Such  a  spirit  we  see  breathing  forth  from  you  as  will  necessarily 
call  for  some  further  animadverting  thereon,  if  you  do  not  retract  some  of 
your  actings  which  we  earnestly  desire  you  to  overlook  and  rectify.  We 
would  not  particularize  and  yet  in  way  of  caution  to  amendment,  might  men- 
tion your  unkindness  and  sourness  in  not  granting  the  use  of  a  house  that 
stands  empty  and  your  illegal  rating  of  the  school  estate,  contrary  to  the 
declared  direction  in  all  our  books,  of  schools,  hospitals  etc.  are  not  to  be 
taxed,  which  we  do  particularly  insist  on,  for  your  speedy  rectification  of 
what  you  have  disorderly  done  (that  we  may  not  have  occasion  to  lay  it  before 
his  excellency.)  Several  other  things  are  before  our  consideration  which  we  do 
not  mention,  hoping  and  expecting  you  will  revise  your  own  actings  and  amend, 
which  is  the  (scope)  of  these  lines  to  prevent  anything  that  may  prove  uncom- 
fortable to  yourselves  being  assured  that  a  sense  of  your  own  crossness, 
perverseness,  unsubjection  to  order  and  repentance  for  what  is  done  amiss, 
will  but  become  yourselves,  and  is  the  plainest  path  to  your  own  comfort, 
which  we  pray  God  to  direct  you  in  and  are 

YOUR  ASSURED  FRIENDS. 

We  let  you  know  and  hereby  declare  that  we  forbid  the  constables  and  all 
officers  from  levying  or  collecting  any  particular  tax  toward  any  town  affair, 
upon  the  school  estate 

Springfield  March  7,  1687-8.  By  order  of  this  Session 

JAMES  CORNISH. 

(Clerk  under  Andrus.) 

The  selectmen  replied  to  this  letter  and  in  June,  1688,  and  the  Court 
sent  another  to  Hadley  "enjoining  them  to  seek  their  own  peace." 

Judd  Hist.  pp.  62,  63. 

Mr.  Russell's  part  in  this  controversy  is  worthy  of  careful  note. 
It  caused  him  serious  trouble.  He  was  a  staunch  friend  of  the  gram- 
mar school  in  distinction  from  an  English  school  and  earnestly  intent 
on  its  secure  establishment.  There  is  reason  to  think  he  had  the  hope 
of  something  still  higher.  In  his  mind's  eye  was  a  college  to  grow 
up  on  this  foundation. 

Mr.  Russell  stood  stoutly  for  the  right  as  he  saw  it,  against  strong 
opposition  led  by  a  man  of  large  ability  and  influence  (Mr.  Partrigg) 
and  the  leading  man  in  the  county  after  the  death  of  Major  Pynchon. 


His  position  and  course  on  this  question  had  the  effect  to  cool  and 
estrange  many  of  his  people,  so  that  after  the  decree  of  the  court, 
Sept.  28,  1686,  only  twelve  persons  could  be  found  to  sign  a  paper 
adhering  to  Mr.  Russell  and  the  Grammar  school,  and  accepting  the 
order  of  the  court.  All  but  this  small  number  seem  to  have  favored 
an  English  school.  This  paper  is  as  follows. 

We  whose  names  are  underwritten  hearing  of  a  court  order  about  Haclley 
school  which  some  do  oppose,  we  for  our  parts  fearing  and  the  disorder  of 
opposing  authority,  declare  that  we  neither  oppose  nor  deny  the  said  order, 
but  do  accept  the  same,  and  submit  to  it,  giving  all  due  honor  to  authority 
and  would  have  it  attended. 
Oct.  18,  IfiSti.  Samuel  Gardner 

John  Ingram 

Chileab  Smith 

Joseph  Kellogg 

Samuel  — 

John  Preston 

Samuel  Porter  Senior 

Aaron  Cook 
Widow  Mary  Goodman  William  Marcum 

Hezekiah  Porter. 

This  was  a  time  of  great  trial  for  these  people.  They  were  poor, 
suffering  from  the  waste  of  war  and  much  discouraged.  The  school 
estate  had  suffered  serious  loss.  The  school  was  intermittent.  A 
school-master  suitable  for  a  Grammar  school  was  hard  to  find  and 
harder  to  retain  on  such  terms  as  could  be  offered.  The  feeling  on 
either  side  was  intense.  Once  heated  it  took  time  to  cool. 

The  town  seem  to  have  given  their  feeling  expression  in  votes  to 
reduce  Mr.  Russell's  salary  for  several  years.  After  his  death  in 
1603  votes  were  passed  which  were  a  confession  of  wrong  and  made 
good  to  his  heirs  the  dues  they  had  witheld.* 

Among  the  Judd  papers  with  J.  R.  Trumbull  the  following  is  found 
which  may  be  in  place  here  : 

TESTIMONY  OF  CHILEAB  SMITH. 

We  whose  names  are  undersigned  do  testify  y'  y  Toxvn  of  Haclley  upon 
Mr.  Goodwills  motion  did  give  liberty  to  sett  a  mill  for  the  school  in  the  place 
where  ye  corn  mill  now  is. 

SAMUEL  GARDNER        ,  . 
Oct.  15.  1687  CHILIAB  SMITH 


*Mr.  John  Russell,  the  first  minister  of  II;idley.  was  graduated  at  Harvard,  in  the  third 
class,  1645,  at  the  age  of  eighteen,  born  in  England,  the  son  of  John  Russell.  He  was 
ordained  when  twenty-two  \  ears  of  age,  four  years  ater  graduation,  pastor  of  the  church 
in  Weathersfield,  Conn.  In  1648,  he  was  school  master  in  Hartford.  He  remained  in 
Weathersfield  about  ten  years,  when  he  appears  on  the  scene  fifty  miles  up  the  river,  as 
pastor  of  the  flock  of  Christ  in  Hadley,  to  whom  he  was  a  faithful  shepherd  until  his  death. 
He  toiled  and  suffered  for  his  people  in  all  the  hardship  and  suffering  of  their  lot.  The 
regicides  Goffe  and  Whalley  found  harbor  in  his  house.  As  a  writer  he  was  wordy  and 
full  of  repetition.  He  was  the  leading  name  in  the  school  committee  during  his  life, 
though  for  a  time  there  was  some  difference  between  him  and  Elder  Goodwin. 


CHAPTER  VI. 


THE  BEGINNINGS  OF  THE  SCHOOL,  AS  LEARNED  FROM 

TOWN  RECORDS,  COURT  PROCEEDINGS  AND 

OTHER  PAPERS. 

The  school,  as  has  been  seen,  began  its  work  as  early  as  1C) (1 7. 
How  it  went  on  for  some  time  in  its  earlier  years  is  learned  from  no 
clear,  continuous  record,  but  is  somewhat  matter  of  inference  from  an 
occasional  vote  of  the  town,  proceedings  in  the  County  Court,  and 
sundry  papers  relating  to  troubles  and  differences  that  arose  from 
time  to  time  and  their  adjustment.  Some  of  these  votes  are  given, 
covering  some  years,  as  follows.  Dec.  21,  1676,  some  ten  years  after 
the  school  began  its  work,  the  town  record  has  this  vote  : 

It  is  ordered  and  voted  by  the  town  for  the  upholding  and  maintaining  of 
the  Scoole  that  the  Scoole  master  shall  have  thirty  pounds  pr  Annum,  which 
shall  be  paid  part  from  the  Annuitie  of  the  Scoole  Estate  and  the  rest  made 
up  by  the  scholards  and  Towne.  (Old  Record,  p.  55.) 

It  is  also  voted  that  whereas  the  scoole  masters  salerye  the  last  year  was 
much  diminished  that  therefore  they  will  give  on  their  next  Town  rate  {fifteen 
pounds  to  the  said  scoole  master. 

Allsoe  with  respect  to  the  great  ffailure  of  persons  in  not  sending  their 
children  to  scoole  it  is  ordered  and  voted  by  the  Towne  that  the  present 
Selectmen  and  the  Selectmen  Annuallye  shall  take  a  list  of  all  children  ffrom 
six  years  onld  to  twelve,  which  shall  be  compellable  if  not  sent  to  scoole  to 
pay  Annually  according  to  and  equallye  with  those  that  are  sent,  only  some 
poore  men,s  children  which  shall  be  exempted  as  they  shall  be  Judged  by  the 
Selectmen ;  And  ffrom  six  yeares  onld,  to  continue  till  twelve  at  scoole  except 
they  Attain  a  ripeness  and  dexteritie  in  Inferior  learning,  as  writeing  &  read- 
ing which  shall  be  Judged  by  the  Scoole  master.  (Original  Record,  p.  55.) 

From  these  and  other  votes  it  would  seem  that  scholars  from  six  to 
twelve  years  of  age  paid  for  schooling  if  able,  whether  in  school  or 
not.  The  income  of  the  school  estate  paid  only  part  of  the  expense. 
It  was  within  reach  of  all  of  suitable  age  on  payment  of  such  cost  as 
was  not  met  by  the  income  of  the  school  property  and  the  Town's 
allowance.  The  management,  employment  of  teachers,  and  the  like, 
was  in  the  hands  of  the  school  committee  for  the  most  part. 


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Jan.  22,  1(577.  Voted  by  the  town  that  Mr.  Younglove  shall  have  for  his 
teaching  school  the  next  year  the  use  of  the  House  and  Homestead 'belonging 
to  the  school  with  twelve  Akars  of  land  given  by  John  Barnard  and  thirty 
pounds  besides  which  shall  be  raised  by  the  remainder  of  the  school  land  the 
scollards  and  the  Towne. 

Voted  by  the  towne  that  for  the  year  ensuing  all  male  children  ffrom  six 
yeares  ould  to  twelve  shall  be  compellable  to  pay  to  the  scoole  such  as  goe 
after  tenn  shillings  by  the  year  and  they  that  goe  not  ftive  shillings  by  the 
year  and  all  others  above  the  age  expressed  that  are  found  Illiterate  and  go 
not  to  paie  ffive  Shillings  by  the  year,  this  order  to  begin  its  date  May  I8t  next 
ensuing.  (Original  Record,  p.  58.) 

Oct.  15,  1078.  Voted  by  the  town  unanimously  respecting  the  scoole  and 
scoole  master  and  his  maintenance  that  Mr.  Younglove  showing  himself 
willing  and  desirous  yet  to  remain  scoole  master  the  Towne  voted  as  afore- 
said to  Improve  him  in  this  work  for  «ne  whole  year  from  the  time  viz  some 
time  in  May  when  his  year  expires  that  he  now  is  in,  and  have  voted  that  with 
the  produce  of  the  scoole  land  the  scollards  and  the  Towne  in  General  shall 
be  raised  30  pound  for  Mr.  Younglove, s  Sallerye  and  he  accepts  of  the  same. 

(p.  59.) 

Feb.  7,  1680.  Voted  by  the  Towne  that  they  are  willing  to  endeavor  the 
procuring  and  provideing  a  scoole  master  that  shall  teach  the  Latin  Tongue ; 
as  allso  the  English  to  any  that  are  entered  with  writeing  and  Cyphering 

Voted  that  the  Said  Scoole  master  shall  have  thirty  pounds  for  this  yeare 
ensuing  and  so  for  the  next  If  he  continue  which  summe  shall  be  raised  by 
the  school  estate  and  the  scollards  and  what  is  wanting  to  make  upp  the  said 
Complement  to  be  paid  by  the  Towne  and  that  the  said  payment  shall  be  no 
worse  than  other  payments  for  service. 

Voted  that  Every  Latin  Scollard  shall  paye  twenty  shillings  pr  Annum  or  by 
ye  yeare  and  Every  English  Scollard  sixteen  shillings  and  so  proportionably 
and  all  that  are  of  Age  that  is  from  six  to  twelve  yeares  though  they  come  not 
yet  shall  paye  eight  shillings  by  the  yeare  and  all  that  doe  but  Enter  shall  paye 
for  the  Quarter. 

Voted  that  the  scoole  Cornittee  with  Luft  Joseph  Kellogg  and  Samuel 
Partrigg  are  Impoured  to  procure,  provide  and  Agree  with  a  Scoole  master 
that  may  be  suitable  for  the  worke  of  said  scoole  on  the  Termes  aforesaid. 

(Original  Town  Record,  p.  65.) 

1682,  Jan.  11.  Voted  that  for  the  raising  of  10  pound  to  make  up  the 
scoole  masters  Sallerye  all  that  goe  to  scoole  Shall  paye  and  all  that  come  to 
Scoole  from  6  yeares  to  12  shall  paye  alike  and  those  that  come  not  yet  of  the 
same  Age  half e  so  much  and  Tis  left  with  the  Selectmen  to  proportion  out  of 
said  persons  for  the  making  up  of  said  Complement. 

(Original  Town  Record,  p.  70.) 

Jan.  1685.  Voted  that  Mr.  Partrigg  shall  Teach  schoole  this  winter  three 
months  or  longer,  (p.  75,  Town  Record.) 

Apr11  28,  1686.  Voted  that  Samuel  Partrigg  have  eight  pounds  paid  him  for 
his  services  in  keeping  schoole  in  Hadley  the  last  winter. 

Voted  that  the  Selectmen  with  Ensigne  Nash,  Chileab  Smith  and  Nehemiah 
Dickinson,  doe  forthwith  treat  with  the  Schoole  Committee  and  Desire  the 


payment  of  eight  pounds  to  Mr.  Partrigg  (out  of  the  Schoole  estate  in  their 
hands)  for  his  keeping  schoole  the  last  winter. 

Apr11  1st,  1687.  Voted  by  the  Towne  that  a  motion  be  made  to  the  School 
Comittee  to  lend  the  Towne  16  pounds  of  the  School  estate  to  pay  Mr.  Mather 
the  present  School  master  Voted  by  the  Towne  their  aceptance  of  said 
motion  by  the  Comittee  and  Mr.  Partrigg  Ingages  to  the  Comittee  in  the 
Townes  behalf  the  return  of  said  estate. 

April  7,  1692.  The  School  Committee  moving  to  the  Town  that  they  may 
remove  the  corn  mill,  that  now  is  below  the  bridge  to  a  more  convenient  place 
for  the  use  of  the  school.  Hereupon  voted  by  the  Town  that  they  do  grant 
the  place  they  desire  so  long  as  they  maintain  a  mill  there  for  the  Town,s  use 

March  30th,  1709-10.  Whereas  the  School  Committee  in  Hadley  desire  the 
advice  and  approbation  of  the  Town  with  respect  to  their  exchanging  one 
acre  and  half  of  land  with  an  out  house  ready  to  fall  down  thereon,  which 
was  given  to  the  town  by  Mr.  Ward  deceased  Voted  by  said  town  that  the 
committee  can  see  it  their  way  and  can  exchange  the  same  for  meadow  land 
or  let  a  long  lease  of  said  acre  and  1-2  of  land  so  as  may  be  of  encouragement 
to  any  to  build  thereupon,  so  as  to  bring  in  a  better  income  to  the  school. 
This  town  hath  approved  thereof.  Voted  in  the  affirmative. 

These  votes  covering  a  period  of  more  than  thirty  years,  are  largely 
the  history  of  the  school  at  this  time.  From  them  it  is  gathered  that 
school  matters  were  conducted  somewhat  loosely.  The  province  and 
function  of  the  Committee  as  related  to  those  of  the  Town  were  not 
clearly  distinguished. 


CHAPTER  VII. 


NAMES  AND  DOINGS  OF  THE  SCHOOL  COMMITTEE. 
NAMES  OF  TEACHERS  OF  THE 
GRAMMAR  SCHOOL. 

A  record  of  changes  in  the  Committee  is  still  in  being.  They  seem 
to  have  kept  a  record  of  their  other  doings,  which  is  lost.  The  names 
of  the  Committee  are  those  that  follow.  Those  chosen  by  Mr.  Dav- 
enport and  Mr.  Goodwin  in  their  agreement  in  1664,  were  Mr.  John 
Russell,  pastor  of  the  church  in  Hadley,  Lieut.  Samuel  Smith,  Andrew 
Bacon  and  Peter  Tilton. 

In  1669  when  Mr.  Goodwin  made  his  proposal  to  the  town  to  name 
three  trustees,  to  whom  the  town  should  add  two  more  to  serve  with 
himself  while  he  lived,  Mr.  Goodwin  made  choice  of  Mr.  John  Rus- 
sell, Lieut.  Samuel  Smith  and  Capt.  Aaron  Cooke.  The  tow^n  chose 
Nathaniel  Dickinson,  Sen.  and  Peter  Tilton,  the  latter  of  whom  was 
named  in  the  agreement  of  Mr.  Davenport  and  Mr.  Goodwin,  and  for 
some  reason  seems  to  have  fallen  out  of  the  number  and  came  into  it 
again  by  choice  of  the  town.  The  name  of  Andrew  Bacon  also  dis- 
appears. It  was  agreed  that  this  board  of  five  persons  should  fill 
vacancies  in  their  number  and  thus  make  the  committee  perpetual. 
Thus  Lt.  Philip  Smith  was  chosen  in  1680, 

Col.  Samuel  Partrigg  in  1682,  removed  1687  by  the  County  Court ; 
Samuel  Porter  in  1685, 
Joseph  Kellogg  in  1686, 

Chileab  Smith  in  1687,  by  the  Court  with  the  concurrence  of  the 
other  members  of  the  Committee. 
In  1720  the  Committee  were  : 
Chileab  Smith, 
Thomas  Hovey, 
Samuel  Porter,  Esq., 
Sargeant  Joseph  Smith  and 
Dea.  John  Smith. 


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Nov.  5,  1733  the  Committee  were  Westwood  Cooke,  John  Smith, 
Eleazar  Porter.  Under  this  date  occurs  the  following  minute  in  the 
records  of  the  Committee  : 

"  We  the  subscribers,  Lieut.  Westwood  Cooke  Lieut.  John  Smith  and  Ele- 
azar Porter  of  the  Scool  Committy  in  Hadley  have  made  choyce  of  Dea.  Sam- 
uel Dickinson  to  serve  as  a  coramitty  man  in  the  room  and  sted  of  Lieut. 
Thomas  Hovey,  one  of  the  scool  Committy:  he  being  aged  and  crazy  and 
declines  the  service  any  longer.  And  we  have  also  made  choyce  of  Mr.  Job 
Marsh  to  serve  as  a  committy  man,  in  the  room  and  sted  of  Mr.  Joseph  Smith, 
one  of  our  late  scool  com"  men  now  deceast." 

In  1745  Capt.  Moses  Cooke  was  chosen, 
44  1746  Dea.  Joseph  Eastman  and  Ensine  Moses  Marsh, 
"  1750  Dea.  Enos  Nash, 
"  1757  Mr.  Eleazar  Porter  to  succeed  the  Honorable  Eleazar  Porter, 

deceast, 

44  1758  Mr.  Samuel  Gay  lord, 
44  1768  Dea.  David  Smith, 
44  1769  Mr.  Elisha  Porter, 
44  1772  Mr.  Edmund  Hubbard, 
44  1781  Mr.  Charles  Phelps, 
44  1783  Dea.  Oliver  Smith, 
44  1785  Lieut.  Enos  Nash, 
44  1793  Capt.  Elisha  Dickinson, 
44  1796  Dea.  Seth  Smith, 
44  1797  Doct.  William  Porter, 
44  1804  Dea.  Jacob  Smith, 
44  1812  Dea.  William  Dickinson, 
44  1815  Col.  Moses  Porter. 

These  five  last  named  were  in  office  when  the  General  Court  was 
petitioned  for  the  act  incorporating  Hopkins  Academy,  and  were  the 
original  Board  of  Trustees  of  that  institution  when  incorporated.  This 
Committee  was  sometimes  criticised  by  men  of  views  opposed  to  each 
other  concerning  a  more  or  less  liberal  way  of  managing  school  affairs. 
They  were  censured  and  even  threatened  with  deposition  for  failing 
to  maintain  it  as  a  Grammar  School.  On  the  other  hand,  they  were 
blamed  for  too  strict  adherence  to  the  Grammar  School  idea,  and  for 
forgetting  that  the  school  was  Hadley's  sole  and  exclusive  right,  thus 
stirring  anew  the  embers  of  the  controversy  of  1686 — 7. 


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TEACHERS    OF    THE    GRAMMAR    SCHOOL. 

Just  when  the  Grammar  school  began  its  work  cannot  be  exactly 
determined.  Materials  for  its  early  history  are  scanty.  The  school 
committee,  as  has  been  said,  seem  to  have  kept  no  record  now  to  be 
found  but  one  that  noted  little  but  the  filling  of  vacancies  in  their  num- 
ber as  they  occurred.  Such  accounts  as  the  Treasurer  kept  are  confused 
and  blind,  and  often  baffle  rather  than  satisfy  inquiry.  An  occasional 
vote  of  the  town  sheds  a  little  light,  but  leaves  many  questions  of 
interest  without  answer.  The  roll  of  the  names  of  the  committee 
from  the  first  is  preserved  nearly,  if  not  quite,  complete.  The  names 
of  many  of  the  teachers  are  known  and  something  of  their  character 
and  later  history. 

It  was  understood  from  the  beginning,  and  for  the  most  part  kept 
in  mind,  that  the  school  was  a  Grammar  school,  a  school  taught  by  a 
master  competent  to  give  instruction  in  the  tongues,  and  fit  young 
men  for  the  university.  Only  for  a  short  time  an  English  school  was 
kept,  while  the  committee  was  put  out  of  their  stewardship  by  the 
town.  With  this  exception  the  Grammar  school  was  maintained  not 
wholly  without  interruption  until  it  was  merged  in  Hopkins  Academy 
after  its  incorporation  in  the  year  1816. 

Under  date  April  25,  1665,  about  a  year  after  the  agreement  of 
Mr.  Davenport  and  Mr.  Goodwin  concerning  the  distribution  of  Gov. 
Hopkins's  estate  it  was  "  Voted  by  the  Towne  that  they  would  give 
20  pound  pr  Annum  for  3  yeares  towards  the  maintenance  of  a  Schoole 
master  to  teach  children  and  to  be  as  a  helpe  to  mr  russell  as  occasion 
may  require." 

This  is  the  earliest  record  of  the  kind.  The  first  teacher  employed 
probably  was  Mr.  Caleb  Watson.  Graduated  at  Harvard  in  1661. 
He  was  a  native  of  Roxbury.  He  was  in  Hadley  in  January,  1667, 
and  probably  came  in  1666  and  continued  until  1673,  when  he  and 
Mr.  Russell  were  no  longer  in  full  harmony.  March  31,  1668,  he 
took  the  freeman's  oath  in  court  at  Northampton.  In  1674  he  under- 
took the  school  in  Hartford  and  continued  to  teach  it  until  1705  when 
a  vote  was  passed  "  that  he  be  no  longer  school  master  to  this  town." 

(Bacon's  Address,  p.  64.) 

About  1674-1680,  John  Younglove  was  the  school  master,  from 
Ipswich,  was  a  preacher  first  at  Quaboag,  (Brookfield)  and  after  he 
left  Hadley  at  Sufiield.  Salary  £30  and  use  of  house  and  land. 

In  1682-1683.  Samuel  Russell,  son  of  Rev.  John  Russell,  Har- 
vard 1681.  Was  minister  at  Branford,  Conn. 


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1685.  Samuel  Partrigg  of  Hadley,  three  months.  Was  Colonel, 
Representative  in  1685-1686,  judge  of  Probate  and  one  of  his  majesty's 
council,  the  most  important  man  in  the  western  part  of  the  Province 
after  the  death  of  Major  Pyuchon  in  17(>3. 

1686-87.  Warham  Mather,  H.  C,  1685.  Son  of  Rev.  Kleazar 
Mather  of  Northampton.  Was  judge  of  Probate  at  New  Haven. 

1688-89.     John  Younglove  again.     6  months. 

1689-90.  Thomas  Swan,  LI.  C.  1689.  From  Roxbury.  He  was 
Register  of  Probate  in  Middlesex.  6  months. 

1693-94.  John  Morse,  H.  C.  1692.  From  Dedham.  Was  minister 
at  Newtown,  L.  I.  He  kept  school  near  a  year. 

1694-95.  Salmon  Treat,  H.  C.  1 694.  Son  of  James  T.  of  Weathes- 
field.  Was  minister  at  Preston,  Conn.  Kept  a  year.  Wages  £39. 

1695-96.  Joseph  Smith.  Son  of  Lieut.  Philip  Smith  of  Hadley. 
Was  minister  at  Upper  Middletown.  Kept  three  quarters,  at  the  rate 
of  £38. 

1696-97.  John  Hubbard,  H.  C.  1695.  Son  of  John  H.  of  Boston. 
Was  minister  of  Jamaica,  L.  I.  Kept  one  year  at  £30  as  money. 

1698-99.     Joseph  Smith  again,  one  year  or  more. 

1700-1.  Samuel  Melyeu,  H.  C.  1696.  Son  of  Jacob  M.  of  Boston. 
Was  minister  at  Elizabethtown,  N.  J.  Kept  one  year,  £38. 

1701-2.  Mr.  Woodbridge.  Either  Ephraim  or  Samuel.  Both 
graduated  at  II.  C.  1701.  Both  were  ministers.  1  year,  £3,8. 

1702-3.  Nathaniel  Chauncey,  Yale  College  1702.  First  graduate 
of  Yale.  The  only  member  of  the  class.  Son  of  Rev.  Nathaniel  C. 
of  Hatfield.  Minister  at  Durham,  Conn.  3  months. 

1703-4.  Samuel  Ruggles,  H.  C.  1702.  From  Roxbury.  Was 
minister  at  Billerica.  Kept  8  months,  at  the  rate  of  £40. 

1705-6.  Samuel  Mighill,  H.  C.  1704.  Son  of  Rev.  Thos.  M.  of 
Scituate.  A  teacher  in  Mass,  and  Conn.  Died  in  South  Hadley  1769. 
li  year,  at  £40. 

1706-7.  Jonathan  Marsh,  H.  C.  1705.  Son  of  Jonathan  M.  of 
Hadley.  Was  minister  at  Windsor,  Conn.  1  year,  £30  as  money. 

1707-8.  John  Partrigg,  H.  C.  1705.  Son  of  Col.  Samuel  P.  of 
Hatfield.  Died  1717.  1  year,  £40. 

1708-9.  Aaron  Porter,  H.  C.  1708.  Son  of  Samuel  Porter  of 
Hadley.  Was  minister  at  Medford.  Kept  6  months,  at  the  rate  of 
£40. 

1709-10.  Rev.  Daniel  Boardman,  Y.  C.  1709.  Son  of  Daniel 
Boardman  of  Weathersfield.  Was  minister  of  New  Milford,  Conn. 
Kept  8  months  at  the  rate  of  £26|  as  money. 


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1710-11.  John  James.  A  native  of  England,  Honorary  degree  at 
H.  C.  in  1710.  He  had  previously  been  minister  at  Derby,  Conn. 
G  months,  at  the  rate  of  £26f  as  money. 

1711-12.  Elisha  Williams,  H.  C.  1711.  Son  of  Rev.  Wm.  W.  of 
Hatfield.  Was  president  of  Yale  College  from  1725  to  1739.  11 
months  at  the  rate  of  £26f  as  money. 

1712-13^  Thomas  Berry,  H.  C.  1712.  Was  a  physician.  Lived 
at  Ipswich.  6  mouths  at  the  rate  of  £30  in  money. 

1713-14.  Stephen  Williams,  H.  C.  1713.  Son  of  Rev.  John  W. 
of  Deerfield.  Was  minister  at  Long  Meadow.  1|  year  at  the  rate 
of  £34  in  money. 

1714-15.  Ebenezer  Gay,  H.  C.  1714.  From  Declham.  Was 
minister  at  Hingham.  9  months  at" the  rate  of  £26. 

1715-16.  Rev.  Nathaniel  Mather,  Y.  C.  1715.  Son  of  Rev.  Samuel 
M.  of  Windsor,  Conn.  Minister  at  -  -  Kept  4  months. 

1716-18.  "  Mr.  Chauncey's  Son."  If  he  was  the  son  of  Rev. 
Isaac  Chauncey  of  Hadley  he  was  only  16  to  18  years  old.  If  years 
at  the  rate  £36. 

1718-19.  Rev.  Stephen  Steele,  Y.  C.  1718.  Son  of  James  Steele 
of  Hartford.  Was  minister  of  Tolland,  Conn.  1  year  £40. 

1719  20.  Solomon  Williams,  H.  C.  1719.  Son  of  Rev.  William 
W.  of  Hatfield.  Was  minister  at  Lebanon,  Conn.  1  year,  £40. 

1720-21.  Hezekiah  Kilburn,  Y.  C.  1720.  He  was  born  at 
Weathersfield  and  resided  there.  1  year  £40. 

1721-23.  Rev.  Daniel  Dwight,  Y.  C.  1721.  Son  of  Nathaniel  D. 
of  Northampton.  Episcopal  minister  at  Charlestown,  S.  C.  1 J  years 
at  £40  a  year. 

1723-24.  Benjamin  Dickinson,  H.  C.  1723.  Son  of  Nathaniel  D. 
of  Hatfield.  A  preacher  many  years.  Lived  in  Hadley.  1  year,  £40. 

1724-25.  Israel  Chauncey,  H.  C.  1724.  Son  of  Rev. Isaac  Chauncey 
of  Hadley.  He  was  an  able  preacher,  but  became  deranged,  and  was 
burned  to  death  in  a  small  building  near  his  father's,  Nov.,  1736. 
Kept  J  year  at  the  rate  of  £40. 

(This  roll  is  copied  from  Mr.  Judd's  History  of  Hadley,  pp.  66-67. 
The  fruit  of  painful,  patient  research.) 

In  March,  1743,  Josiah  Pierce,  H.  C.  1735,  a  native  of  Woburn, 
began  to  keep  the  Grammar  School.  He  was  to  instruct  in  reading, 
writing,  arithmetic,  Latin  and  Greek.  He  kept  12  years  to  1755  and 
again  6  years,  from  1760  to  1766.  His  pay  was  £27.J  in  N.  E.  cur- 
rency, or  $91,  and  he  had  the  use  of  25  acres  of  meadow  land. 
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Mr.  Pierce  for  a  long  period  was  town  clerk  as  well  as  teacher.  He 
sometimes  preached  though  he  was  probably  never  ordained. 

Mr.  Pierce  began  to  teach  school  in  Hadley  as  early  as  Jan.,  1741. 
He  had  29  scholars  on  the  23rd  and  on  the  29th  day  of  that  month. 
From  entries  in  his  diary,  kept  in  an  interleaved  almanac  each  year, 
it  appears  that  the  school  was  frequently  not  in  session,  from  one  day 
to  one  or  more  weeks  at  a  time,  on  account  of  storms,  town*  meetings, 
fasts,  company,  want  of  wood,  master's  absence  on  a  journey,  or  to 
take  care  of  his  farm,  when  no  help  could  be  had.  Under  date  Nov. 
19,  1742,  occurs  this  entry: 

This  day  being  the  day  before  Thanksgiving  I  keep  school  all  day,  as  I  have 
heretofore,  willing  to  attend;  if  parents  will  let  their  children  attend ;  but 
they,  the  most  of  them,  letting  their  children  play  about  the  streets  rather  yu 
send  them  to  school,  I  determine  not  to  attend  ye  school  in  ye  afternoon  of 
such  day  hereafter. 

No  mention  is  made  of  regular  vacations.  The  school  week  was 
six  days.  The  school  day  more  than  six  hours.  The  number  of 
scholars  varied  from  5  to  30.  Average  attendance,  25  or  less,  rather 
than  more.  He  notes  that  he  taught  Latin  and  Greek.  Sometimes 
he  mentions  Arithmetic  as  taught  to  sundry  pupils  gratis.  June  8, 
1743.  "  No  school  because  no  scholars  sent." 

From  the  Book  of  Treasurer's  accounts  No.  1  these  facts  are 
gathered,  p.  14. 

17f>0,  (date  illegible).  Agreed  with  mr  Pierce  to  keep  the  school  one  year, 
to  give  him  the  Improvement  of  ye  school  lands  in  Hadley  3  acres  excepted 
for  which  he  is  to  have  O  L  D  T  and  give  him  £205  as  Salary,  the  year  begins 
Sept.  10 

In  his  own  diary  is  this  entry : 

Sept.  8.     I  enter  the  school  at  Hadley. 

And  this  in  another  place  : 

1700,  Sept.  8.  I  entered  the  school  again  at  Hadley  this  day,  Sal.  to  be  as 
when  I  left  it,  viz1,  £205  O.  T.  that  is  £27.6.8  L.  M.  per  ami.  and  the  use  of 
all  the  school  land  in  Great  meadow  and  Hockanum  to  be  accounted  £50  O.  T. 
i  e  £0  13s.  4d.  1.  m.  per  ami. 

27     G     8     pr  ami. 
6     6    8    pr  quarter 
2     5  •  (>     pr  month 
11     4    pr  week 

Here  is  given  the  Covenant  of  Josiah  Pierce  and  the  school 
committee  : 

Feb.  28,  1742-3.  The  school  committee  consisting  of  Eleazar  Porter, 
Westwood  Cook,  John  Smith,  Saml  Dickinson  and  Job  Marsh  made  a  cove- 
nant with  Josiah  Fierce.  This  covenant  bound  Josiah  Pierce  "to  settle  in  the 


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work  and  business  of  keeping  a  Grammar  and  English  School  in  said  Hadley 
first  Precinct  viz  instructing  in  Reading,  Writing  and  Arithmetic  and  in  the 
Latin  and  Greek  tongues  so  far  as  is  requisite  for  admission  into  Harvard 
and  Yale  Colleges,  for  so  long  a  time  as  sd  Pierce  Shall  be  able  to  discharge 
sd  work  and  business  faithfully." 

His  salary  was  to  be  £115  in  bills  of  public  credit  whose  equivalent 
was  £27 — 6 — 8  lawful  money,  payable  annually,  and  the  use  of  all 
the  school  land  in  the  Great  Meadow,  Hockanum  Field  and  North- 
ampton meadow,  25  acres  in  all,  to  be  accounted  £6-13s.-4d.  lawful 
money,  per  ann. 

This  covenant  continued  in  force  until  May  7,  1755,  when  it  termi- 
nated at  the  desire  of  Mr.  Pierce.  The  committee  at  this  date  were 
Eleazar  Porter,  Moses  Cook,  Joseph  Eastman,  Moses  Marsh,  Enos 
Nash. 

See  the  original  covenant  in  the  Judd  collection  with  J.  R.  Trum- 
bull,  Northampton. 

In  Sept.  8,  1760,  Mr.  Pierce  entered  the  school  again  at  Hadley  on 
the  same  terms  as  before,  and  continued  in  service  six  years.  Judd. 
Diary  of  Josiah  Pierce,  Sept.  8,  1760. 

From  this  covenant  it  is  clear  that  the  committee  understood  that  a 
Grammar  school  must  be  maintained  and  that  a  Grammar  school  was 
one  in  which  enough  Latin  and  Greek  must  be  taught  to  meet  the 
requirement  to  enter  Harvard  or  Yale  Colleges.  It  is  also  plain  that 
the  committee  were  responsible  to  the  teacher  for  his  annual  salary. 
More  than  one-sixth  of  this  was  received  as  the  use  of  land.  How 
the  rest  was  paid  does  not  appear. 

We  can  look  into  the  school  master's  mind  a  little  through  such 
entries  as  these  : 

May  26,  1744.  I  begin  to  instruct  Mr.  F —  in  Latin  and  he  breaks  oft'  like 
a  F-l. 

May  7,  1855.  I  give  up  the  school  at  Hadley.  I  am  to  improve  the  lands 
as  heretofore  this  year. 

Dec.  J),  1755.  I  enter  in  ye  school  at  Hadley  till  Mr.  Strong  is  well  who  is 
sick. 

Jan.  2(5,  1756.     I  keep  the  Hopkins  School  this  day  and  no  longer.     33s. 

Dec.  28.     I  opened  a  school  at  my  own  house. 

During  the  time  between  1755  and  1760  he  taught  at  South  Hadley  and  at 
Northampton  for  terms  of  three  or  six  months,  four  weeks  to  the  month, 
days  of  absence  to  be  made  up.  In  the  list  of  his  pupils  in  South  Hadley 
appear  the  names  of  persons  who  became  leading  citizens.  Boys  only  seem 
to  have  been  his  pupils.  The  same  is  true  largely  if  not  wholly  of  the  Hop- 
kins School  until  its  incorporation  in  1816  as  Hopkins  Academy. 

Oct.  27,  1766.  Mr.  Pierce  began  to  teach  school  in  Ainlicrst,  and  taught 
six  months  a  year  or  more,  for  32  shillings,  or  $5.33  a  month  and  board. 


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Winter  evenings  he  kept  a  ciphering  school,  a  few  weeks  at  one  shilling  an 
evening.  In  the  cold  months  30  to  40  were  in  his  day  school  in  Amherst,  in 
the  warm  months  15  to  30.  His  family  resided  in  Hadley,  as  was  the  case 
when  he  taught  in  Northampton  and  South  Hadley.  He  preached  in  vacant 
pulpits  occasionally,  gratis,  or  at  18  or  20  shillings  a  Sabbath.  March  29, 
1G21>,  he  dismissed  the  school  for  the  want  of  wood. 

(Judd.  Hist.  Hadley,  p.  421.) 

After  Mr.  Pierce  retired,  Mr.  Strong  was  his  successor.  How  long 
is  not  known.  Mr.  Pierce  taught  for  him  a  short  time  while  he  was 
sick.  From  this  time  on  the  list  is  incomplete. 

Mr.  Oliver  Warner  charges  the  school  committee  for  the  board  of 
Mr.  Whitney,  Aug.  3,  1772  to  April  13th,  1775,  deducting  for 
absence  11  days  at  New  Haven,  4  days  at  Brimfield,  2  weeks  at 
Cambridge.  Mr.  Whitney,  no  doubt,  was  the  school  master  during 
this  time.  Old  acct.  book,  p.  20. 

1779.  From  Sept.  15  to  March  15,  1780,  Rev.  Sewel  Chapin  kept 
school. 

1780.  From  Dec.,  1780  to  Dec.  25,  1786,  Moses  Hubbard,  II.  C. 
1765  Honorary  A.  B.,  Y.  C.,  A.  M.  also,  married  Mabel,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Hopkins,  D.  D. 

1786.  From  Dec.  25,  to  Nov.  10,  1791,  Mr.  Enos  Cook,  Y.  C. 
1785,  son  of  Joseph,  son  of  Noah,  son  of  Westwood,  son  of  Aaron. 

1791.  Dec.  15,  to  July  8,  1792,  Mr.  Heman  Ball. 

1792.  July  23,  to  Oct.,  two  m.  and  one  week,  Ebenezer  White. 

1792.  Oct.  1,  to  Apr.  6,  1793,  Mr.  Jasper  Bentley. 

1793.  Apr.  6,  to  Oct.  9,  Mr.  Ebenezer  White,  except  1  m.  and  8 
days  absent,  being  in  the  whole  4  months  and  25  days  at  £3  per  month, 
14-9-8. 

1793.  Oct.  8,  to  April  1,  1794,  Mr.  John  Smith. 

1794.  May  5,  to  Sept.  5,  Mr.  Samuel  Grimes. 
1794.     Sept.  15,  to  April  5,  1795,  Mr.  John  Smith. 

1794.  Rev.  Gardiner  Kellogg,  Y.  C.  1791.     Kept  school  2  weeks, 
ending  Apr.  1,  apparently. 

1795.  Apr.  27,  to  Oct.  6,  5  mos.  in  all,  Ebenezer  White. 

1795.  Nov.  23,  to  ye  15  April,  1796,  Rev.  John  Gmiey,  Y.  C. 
1773.  1796  from  Apr.  25,  to  Sept.  9. 

1796-1797.  Nov.  to  March  8,  Mr.  Fanning  Tracy,  Y.  C.  1796, 
also  from  March  9  to  June  9  and  two  months  ending  Aug.  9,  1797. 
After  Mr.  Tracy,  2  rnos.,  17  days,  dates  not  noted,  Mr.  Joseph 
Bridgman. 

1798.  Jan.  18  to  July  1,  and  to  Oct.  12,  2  mos.,  25  days  and 
from  Oct.  8,  1798  to  1799,  May  1,  Mr.  John  Dickinson. 


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1799.  May  1  to  Sept.  1,  and  3  mos.,  23  days  to  Dec.  24,  Mr. 
James  Woodward. 

1801.     7  mos.  to  April  ;,(),  Giles  C.  Kellogg,  Y.  C.  1800. 

1803.     6  mos.  ending  Apr.  5,  1803  Rev.  Bela  Kellogg,  W.  C.  1800. 

1803.     Mr.  Taylor. 

No  record  is  found  of  teachers  of  the  Grammar  school  between 
1803  and  1816.  But  it  is  remembered  by  one  who  was  during  this 
period  a  member  of  the  school,  Dea.  Simeon  Dickinson  of  Northamp- 
ton, that  Rev.  Mr.  Gray  was  teacher  for  a  time.  Dr.  Rogers  taught 
for  a  season  and  Mr.  Chester,  Y.  C.  1804,  afterwards  distinguished 
as  Rev.  John  Chester,  D.  D. 

It  appears  that  these  teachers  with  few  exceptions,  were  young  men, 
recent  graduates  of  College.  Many  of  them  afterwards  distinguished. 
Their  terms  of  service  were  short  for  the  most  part.  Very  few  of 
them  made  teaching  their  life  work.  Hence  the  quality  of  their  work, 
though  excellent,  would  not  be  what  it  might  have  been,  had  it  been 
their  permanent  choice. 


CHAPTER   VIII. 


SCHOOL  AFKAIR8  FROM  17^5-1 8 10. 

After  the  troubles  concerning  the  school  estate  were  settled  in  1 688 
and  the  School  Committee  established  and  confirmed  in  their  care  and 
management  of  the  property,  all  went  on  quietly  until  about  the 
middle  of  the  18th  century. 

The  period  between  1750-70  was  one  when  warm  interest  was  felt 
concerning  the  Hopkins  school.  Some  controversy  arose  concerning 
it.  The  committee  were  charged  with  neglect  of  duty  in  that  the 
Grammar  school  was  practically  such  no  longer.  English  scholars 
were  suffered  to  come  in,  in  such  numbers,  that  the  master  could  not 
give  due  attention  to  Grammar  scholars.  During  this  period  there 
was  a  scheme  to  set  up  a  college  with  the  Hopkins  fund  as  a  basis. 
A  Grammar  school  was  started  in  Hatfield  for  scholars  that  did  not 
get  their  dues  at  the  Hopkins  school  in  Hadley. 

This  vote  of  the  town  of  Hadley  shows  that  interest  concerning 
education  was  alive  in  the  minds  of  the  people. 

TOWN  VOTES  SEPT.  30,  1754. 

At  a  legal  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  Town  of  Hadley  hohlen  at 
the  meeting-house  in  the  first  Precinct  in  said  Hadley. 

Voted.  The  Town  is  willing  that  the  estate  given  for  the  support  of  a 
Grammar  School  in  the  Town  of  Hadley,  be  employed  (in  conjunction  with 
other  estates  that  may  be  obtained  by  subscription)  for  the  support  of  an 
Academy  in  the  Town  of  Hadley ;  the  Grammar  School  being  always  main- 
tained by  the  same,  for  the  benefit  of  the  said  Town  of  Hadley. 

A  true  copy  from  the  Book  of  votes  in  the  Town  of  Hadley,  extracted  Oct. 
12th,  1754,  by  Josiah  Pierce,  Clark  for  sd.  Town  of  Hadley. 

Jan.  1,  1759.  I.  Williams,  of  Hatfield,  wrote  to  Eleazar  Porter  of 
the  school  committee,  complaining  that  the  design  of  the  donor  of  the 
school  estate  was  not  furthered  as  it  ought  to  be  by  the  trustees,  that 
so  many  English  scholars  were  sent  to  the  school  that  the  master  had 
not  time  to  attend  properly  to  Grammar  scholars  and  giving  it  to  be 


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understood  that  if  the  trustees  or  committee  did  not  heed  the  warning 
and  change  their  course,  measures  were  in  contemplation  to  remove 
them  from  office,  for  having  failed  in  duty. 

A  letter  of  I.  Williams  without  date  or  address,  written  probably 
about  this  time,  goes  to  show  that  a  lively  interest  was  felt  in  the 
school  question,  to  what  end  the  school  estate  should  be  managed, 
and  what  right  and  interest  the  town  had  in  it.  He  argues  strongly 
and  nt  much  length  that  the  trust  was  not  with  the  Town,  but  with 
the  trustees,  for  the  ends  indicated  by  the  original  donors.  A 
Grammar  school  was  s.et  up  in  Hatfield  about  1754.  About  this  time, 
too,  occurred  the  movement  for  a  college  in  Hampshire  county.  See 
the  letters  in  the  Judd  collection  with  J.  R.  Trumbull. 

July,  1766,  (day  of  the  month  torn  out.)  Samuel  Cooke  of  Cam- 
bridge, wrote  a  letter  to  Rev.  Samuel  Hopkins  of  Hadley,  claiming 
very  strongly  that  the  school  estate  belonged  to  Hadley  solely  and 
exclusively. 

This  letter  seems  to  have  been  intended  as  an  answer  to  the  views 
of  Mr.  Williams  and  those  in  sympathy  with  him  and  opposed  to  the 
scheme  they  were  anxious  to  carry  out, — to  establish  a  college  and 
perhaps  use  the  Hopkins  estate  in  aid  of  the  enterprise.  He  com- 
plains of  the  disposition  and  effort  to  send  English  scholars  from  the 
school. — (  Judd  papers  with  J.  R.  Trumbull.) 

Letters  of  *Israel  Williams  concerning  these  matters  are  preserved 
in  the  collections  of  the  Mass.  Historical  Society  in  Boston. 

This  controversy  died  away.  The  committee  were  not  disturbed. 
The  school  was  continued,  it  may  be,  with  some  interruptions.  No 
complete  list  of  teachers  can  be  found.  A  very  few  persons  are 
living  who  remember  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  as  pupils  in  it 
during  the  earlier  years  of  the  present  century.  At  this  time,  as 
before,  it  was  understood  to  be  a  Grammar  school  taught  by  a  master 
able  to  teach  the  tongues  and  fit  young  men  for  college,  though  those 
who  sought  such  instruction  were  few.  By  far  the  larger  number 
were  taught  only  the  common  English  branches. 

*Israel  Williams  was  evidently  an  educated  man,  friend  of  education  and  positive  clear 
convictions  and  able  to  express  them  strongly. 


CHAPTER  IX. 


INCORPORATION  OF  HOPKINS  ACADEMY. 

At  this  time  and  onward  there  is  reason  to  think  that  in  the  minds 
of  the  committee  and  other  friends  of  education  the  feeling  was  grow- 
ing, that  something  more  and  better  than  had  been  realized  was  to  be 
desired.  This  desire  found  expression  in  a  movement  to  secure  from 
the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts,  an  act  of  incorporation  under 
which  the  Hopkins  Donation  School  should  become  Hopkins  Academy. 

The  earliest  record  of  this  feeling  and  movement  is  found  in  the 
doings  of  a  town  meeting  held  Jan.  1,  1816,  when  this  vote  was 
passed  : 

Jan.  1,  1816.  In  a  town  meeting  held  this  day  it  was  voted  that  the  town 
will  unite  with  the  Committee  of  the  Hadley  Donation  School  in  petitioning 
the  Legislature  for  the  establishment  of  an  academy  in  this  town. 

The  committee  themselves  presented  such  a  petition,  as  appears 
from  the  act  of  incorporation  herewith  given. 

Whereas  it  appears  by  the  petition  of  Seth  Smith  and  others,  the  Committee 
of  the  Donation  School  in  the  town  of  Hadley,  that  a  fund  heretofore  given 
for  the  support  of  said  School  by  the  Honorable  Edward  Hopkins,  may  be 
more  conveniently  and  advantageously  directed  to  the  furtherance  of  the 
benevolent  objects  of  the  donor  by  establishing  a  body  politic  for  the  manage- 
ment of  the  same ;  Therefore 

Sec.  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives  in  Gen- 
eral Court  assembled,  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same,  that  there  be,  and 
hereby  is  established  an  Academy  in  the  town  of  Hadley  and  County  of 
Hampshire  upon  the  foundation  of  the  Hopkins  Donation  School,  to  be  known 
and  called  hereafter  by  the  name  of  Hopkins  Academy  and  that  Seth  Smith, 
William  Porter,  William  Dickinson,  Jacob  Smith  and  Moses  Porter,  the  Com- 
mittee of  the  Donation  School  aforesaid  be,  and  they  are  hereby  incorporated 
into  a  body  politic  by  the  name  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy ;  and 
they  and  their  successors  shall  be  and  continue  a  body  politic  by  the  same 
name  forever. 

Sec.  2.  Be  it  enacted,  That  all  the  lands  and  monies  heretofore  given  or 
subscribed  to  the  Committee  aforesaid  for  the  use  of  the  said  school,  or 
which  shall  hereafter  be  given,  granted  and  assigned  to  the  Trustees  afore- 


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said  for  the  use  of  the  said  Academy,  shall  be  confirmed  to  the  said  Trustees 
and  their  successors  iu  that  trust  forever  for  the  uses  designated  by  the 
Donors;  and  they  the  said  Trustees  and  their  successors  shall  be  further 
capable  of  having,  holding  and  taking,  in  fee  simple  by  gift,  grant  devise  or 
otherwise,  any  la'nds,  tenements  or  other  estate  real  or  personal,  provided 
the  annual  income  of  the  same  shall  not  exceed  flve  thousand  dollars ;  and 
that  the  rents  and  profits  thereof  shall  be  applied  in  such  a  manner  as  that  the 
designs  of  the  donors  may  be  effectually  promoted. 

Sec.  3.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  said  Trustees  shall  have  power 
from  time  to  time  as  they  shall  determine,  to  elect  such  officers  of  the  said 
Academy  as  they  shall  judge  necessary  and  convenient,  and  fix  the  term  of 
their  respective  ollices;  to  remove  any  Trustee  from  the  Corporation,  when 
in  their  opinion  he  shall  be  incapable  through  age  or  otherwise  of  discharging 
the  duties  of  his  office;  to  fill  all  vacancies  by  electing  such  persons  for 
Trustees  as  they  shall  judge  best;  to  determine  the  times  and  places  of  their 
meetings,  the  manner  of  notifying  the  said  Trustees,  and  the  method  of 
electing  or  removing  them ;  to  ascertain  the  powers  and  duties  of  their  several 
officers,  to  elect  preceptors  and  instructors  of  the  said  Academy,  and  deter- 
mine the  duties  and  tenures  of  their  offices ;  to  ordain  reasonable  rules,  orders 
and  bye-laws  not  repugnant  to  the  laws  of  this  Commonwealth,  with  reasonable 
penalties,  for  the  good  government  of  the  said  Academy,  and  to  ascertain  the 
qualifications  of  students,  requisite  to  their  admission  and  the  same  rules, 
orders  or  bye-laws  at  their  pleasure  to  repeal. 

Sec.  4.  Be  it  further  enacted.  That  the  Trustees  of  the  said  Academy  may 
have  one  common  seal,  which  they  may  change  at  pleasure  and  that  all  the 
deeds  signed  and  delivered  by  their  Treasurer  or  Secretary,  by  their  order, 
and  sealed  with  their  seal,  shall,  when  made  in  their  name,  be  considered  as 
their  deed,  and  as  such  to  be  duly  executed  and  valid  in  law ;  and  that  the 
Trustees  aforesaid  may  sue  and  be  sued  in  all  actions,  real,  personal  or  mixed 
and  prosecute  and  defend  the  same  to  final  judgment  and  execution. 

Sec.  5.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  the  number  of  said  Trustees  and  their 
successors,  shall  not  at  any  one  time  be  more  than  nine,  nor  less  than  five, 
and  a  majority  of  the  whole  number  for  the  time  being,  shall  constitute  a 
quorum  for  transacting  business,  and  a  majority  of  members  present  at  a 
legal  meeting  shall  decide  all  questions  proper  to  come  before  the  Trustees. 

Sec.  6.  Be  it  further  enacted,  That  Seth  Smith  be,  and  he  hereby  is 
authorized  to  fix  the  time  and  place  of  holding  the  first  meeting  of  the  said 
Trustees,  and  to  notify  them  thereof. 

Approved  by  the  Governor  Feb.  14,  18 1G. 
CALEB  STRONG  was  Governor  at  this  time. 

An  act  in  addition  to  an  act  entitled  ' l  An  Act  to  incorporate  the 
Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy." 

Sec.  1.  Be  it  enacted  by  the  Senate  and  House  of  Representatives,  in  Gen- 
eral court  assembled  and  by  the  authority  of  the  same,  That  the  number  of 
the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  and  their  successors,  shall  not  at  any  one 
time  be  more  than  fifteen,  nor  less  than  live;  and  a  majority  of  the  whole  for 
the  time  being,  shall  constitute  a  quorum  for  transacting  business;  and  a 
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majority  of  the  members  present  at  a  legal  meeting,  shall  decide  all  questions 
proper  to  come  before  the  Trustees. 

Sec.  2.  B3  it  further  enacted,  That  the  fifth  section  of  the  Act  entitled 
"  An  Act  to  incorporate  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  "  be  and  the  same 
is  hereby  repealed. 

June  9,  1821. 

The  Trustees  thus  incorporated  held  their  first  meeting  June  4th, 
1817,  at  the  house  of  Dr.  Wm.  Porter,  chose  Rev.  Dan  Huntington 
and  Rev.  John  Woodbridge  as  two  additional  trustees  and  adjourned 
to  the  sixth  of  the  same  month  at  the  house  of  Dea.  Seth  Smith.  On 
Friday,  June  6th,  the  Trustees  met  and  chose  Rev.  Joseph  Lyman, 
D.  D.  and  Isaac  C.  Bates,  P^sq.  as  two  additional  Trustees,  making 
the  whole  number  nine,  and  adjourned  to  meet  on  the  eleventh  at  the 
house  of  Rev.  John  Woodbridge. 

June  llth.  The  Board  met  and  chose  the  Rev.  Dan  Huntington 
Secretary  of  the  Board,  the  Rev.  Joseph  Lyman,  D.  D.,  President 
and  Wm.  Porter,  Esq.,  Treasurer.  Isaac  C.  Bates,  Esq.,  Rev.  Dan 
Huntington  and  Moses  Porter,  Esq.  were  appointed  a  committee  to 
frame  Bye-laws  for  the  regulation  of  Hopkins  Academy,  and  Rev. 
John  Woodbridge,  William  Porter,  Esq.  and  Dea.  Jacob  Smith  were 
appointed  a  committee  to  procure  an  instructor  of  the  Academy. 

June  30.  The  Board  met  as  adjourned.  The  committee  appointed 
to  prepare  bye-laws,  reported  as  follows  : 

1st.  The  officers  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  consist  of  a  President,  a 
Secretary,  a  Treasurer  and  a  Prudential  Committee  of  three  persons,  which 
shall  be  elected  by  ballot  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Board,  to  be  holden  on 
Tuesday,  fifteen  days  before  the  first  Wednesday  of  December  10  o'clock,  A.  M. 

2nd.  The  President  shall  be  empowered,  upon  application  of  three  or  more, 
Trustees,  to  call  a  special  meeting  of  the  Board,  or  when  in  his  opinion  it 
shall  be  necessary,  giving  seasonable  notice  of  the  time  and  place  of  meet- 
ing, and  in  case  of  the  absence  or  inability  of  the  President  the  same  powers 
are  entrusted  with  the  Prudential  Committee. 

3rd.  The  Treasurer  shall  give  adequate  bonds,  with  sufficient  securities  to 
the  Prudential  Committee,  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duty. 

4th.  All  orders  on  the  Treasurer  for  the  payment  of  money  shall  be  drawn 
under  direction  of  the  Prudential  Committee. 

5th.  The  Prudential  Committee  shall  provide  sufficient  instructors  for  said 
Academy,  who  shall  be  continued  or  removed  at  the  discretion  of  the  Trus- 
tees, and  the  general  concerns  of  the  Institution  shall  be  under  the-  Superin- 
tendence of  Said  Committee. 

0.  The  Instructors  shall  be  persons  of  good  moral  character,  of  competent 
learning  and  abilities,  firmly  established  in  the  faith  of  the  Christian  Religion, 
the  doctrine  and  duties  of  which  they  shall  inculcate,  as  well  by  example  as 
precept. 


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They  shall  instruct  their  pupils  whether  males  or  female,  in  the  several 
arts  and  sciences,  which  may  be  necessary  or  proper  to  an  accomplished  edu- 
cation of  either. 

The  Preceptor  shall  open  and  close  the  school  each  day  with  prayer.  He 
shall  be  authorized  to  adopt  such  rules  for  the  internal  government  of  said 
Academy  under  the  revision  of  the  Prudential  Committee,  as  shall  bo  found 
necessary,  nor  contravening  those  established  by  the  Trustees. 

[He  shall  also  keep  and  at  the  end  of  each  term  render  to  the  Treasurer,  a 
catalogue  of  the  students,  specifying,  respectively  the  time  of  their  entering 
and  leaving  the  school.] 

7th.  Youth  of  both  sexes,  who  can  read  decently,  in  a  common  English 
book  without  spelling  and  write  a  joined  hand  and  are  of  good  moral  charac- 
ter shall  be  entitled  to  admission. 

[8th.  Males  studying  the  Greek  and  Latin  languages  are  exempt  from  the 
expense  of  tuition. 

9 tli.  Tuition  by  the  term,  shall  be  two  dollars,  one-half  payable  in  advance, 
the  residue  at  the  expiration  of  six  weeks  from  the  time  of  admission.  ] 

10th.  All  the  students  [shall  uniformly  attend  upon  the  public  worship  of 
the  Sabbath]  shall  be  in  subjection  to  the  authority  and  government  of  the 
Institution ;  shall  be  punctual  and  seasonable  in  their  attendance  upon  its 
exercises ;  orderly  and  studious  in  their  habits ;  decent  in  their  apparel  and 
deportment ;  and  shall  in  all  things  conform  to  the  rules  and  regulations  which 
are  or  may  be  prescribed  for  their  direction  and  government. 

llth.  All  damages  shall  be  estimated  by  the  Preceptor  and  repaid  by  those 
who  occasion  them. 

12th.  Punishments  shall  be  either  private  or  public  admonition,  and  degra- 
dation to  be  inflicted  at  the  discretion  of  the  Preceptor,  and  for  more 
aggravated  offences  suspension  or  expulsion  to  be  inflicted  by  the  Preceptor, 
with  the  concurrence  of  the  Prudential  Committee. 

[13th.  There  shall  be  four  terms  in  each  year  and  four  vacations  consisting 
of  two  weeks  each.  The  terms  shall  respectively  commence  on  the  first 
Wednesdays  of  December,  March,  June  and  September.  And  at  the  end  of 
each  term  there  shall  be  a  public  examination  of  the  students.] 

14th.  Each  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  be  opened  with  prayer 
by  the  President  or  some  person  nominated  by  him. 

15th.  Any  alteration  or  amendment  of  the  bye  laws  shall  be  proposed  at  a 
previous  meeting. 

Voted  to  accept  the  above  as  the  Constitution  of  Hopkins  Academy. 
[Aug.  30,  1819.  The  8th  and  9th  articles  of  the  Bye  laws  were  so 
far  altered  as  that  the  price  of  tuition  shall,  in  future,  be  two  dollars 
and  fifty  cents,  as  well  for  Latin  and  Greek,  as  English  scholars  tuid 
in  case  any  student  shall  at  the  same  time  attend  to  more  branches 
than  two,  the  tuition  shall  be  increased  at  the  rate  of  fifty  cents  for 
each  additional  branch  of  study,  excepting  in  the  French  language, 
the  terms  of  tuition  in  which  will  vary  according  to  the  number  of 
scholars,  and  be  subject  to  the  order  of  the  Prudential  Committee, 


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provided,  however,  that  in  ease  any  Latin  and  (Jreek  scholar  shall 
attend  to  any  other  branch  of  study,  the  Latin  and  Greek  shall  be 
deemed  but  one  branch  ;  and  provided  also,  that  all  charity  scholars 
who  may  be  placed  in  the  Academy  by  any  Education  Society,  or  by 
the  Prudential  Committee,  as  such,  shall  be  exempted  from  all 
expense  for  tuition. 

Sept.  6,  1821.  It  was  voted  that  as  a  standing  rule,  there  shall 
be  a  regular  meeting  of  the  Trustees,  for  the  transaction  of  business, 
at  the  close  of  each  quarter,  when  the  publick  examination  is  had. 

Dec.  5,  1825.  Voted  that  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Board  be 
held  each  year  on  Monday  next  preceding  the  Wednesday  which 
commences  the  winter  quarter,  at  11  o'clock  A.  M. 

Voted  that  it  be  the  official  duty  of  the  preceptor  to  furnish  the 
Treasurer,  at  least  three  weeks  previous  to  the  expiration  of  such 
quarter,  a  list  of  the  names  of  the  students,  their  place  of  residence, 
and  the  sums  due  from  them  severally  to  the  Treasury. 

Vofed  that  in  future  the  number  of  officers  be  enlarged  by  the  choice 
of  a  vice-president. 

Nov.  9,  1839.  It  was  voted  that  members  of  colleges  be  not 
admitted  as  members  of  the  Academy  from  this  time. 

Jan.  23,  1852.  It  was  voted  that  the  By-laws  be  so  altered  as  to 
allow  the  Preceptor  of  the  Academy  liberty  to  punish  the  younger 
scholars  as  is  customary  in  common  schools. 

Feb.  17,  1852.  Voted  that  the  12th  article  which  relates  to  the 
punishment  of  scholars  be  erased.]* 

BY-LAWS  OF  HOPKINS  ACADEMY  AS  REVISED  AND  AMENDED 
MAY  5,  1889. 

ARTICLE  1st.  The  officers  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  consist  of  a 
president,  a  vice-president,  a  secretary,  a  treasurer,  a  prudential  committee 
of  three  persons  and  an  auditor  of  accounts,  which  officers  shall  be  elected  by 
ballot  at  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Board  to  be  holden  on  the  last  day  of  the 
Fall  term  in  each  year. 

ART.  2d.  The  Prudential  Committee  shall  be  empowered,  upon  the  applica- 
tion of  three  or  more  trustees,  to  call  a  special  meeting  of  the  Board,  or 
when,  in  their  opinion  it  shall  be  necessary,  giving  seasonable  notice  of  the 
time  and  place  of  meeting. 

ART.  3d.  The  Treasurer  shall  give  adequate  bonds,  with  sufficient  securi- 
ties to  the  Prudential  Committee  for  the  faithful  discharge  of  his  duty. 

ART.  4th.     All  orders  on  the  Treasurer  for  the  payment  of  money  shall  be 


^Articles  in  brackets  subsequently  repealed. 


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drawn  under  the-  direction  of  the  Prudential  Committee  and  be  signed  by  not 
less  than  two  of  them. 

ART.  5th.  The  Prudential  Committee  shall  provide  sufficient  instructors 
for  said  Academy,  who  shall  be  continued  or  removed  at  the  discretion  of  the 
Trustees,  and  the  general  concerns  of  the  institution  shall  be  under  the 
superintendence  of  said  committee. 

ART.  Gth.  The  instructors  shall  be  persons  of  good  moral  character,  of 
competent  learning  and  abilities,  firmly  established  in  the  faith  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion,  the  doctrines  and  duties  of  which  they  shall  inculcate  by  exam- 
ple as  well  as  by  precept.  They  shall  faithfully  instruct  all  their  pupils  in  all 
the  branches  of  the  course  of  study  as  prescribed  by  the  Prudential  Commit- 
tee, with  the  view  to  prepare  young  men  and  women  for  admission  to  college, 
or  other  higher  institutions  of  learning  or  for  the  conduct  of  life. 

The  Principal  shall  open  the  school  each  day  with  prayer.  He  is  authorized 
to  adopt  such  rules  for  the  internal  government  of  said  Academy  under  the 
revision  of  the  Prudential  Committee" as  shall  be  found  necessary,  not  con- 
travening those  established  by  the  Trustees. 

The  Principal  shall  return  to  the  secretary,  at  the  end  of  each  term,  the 
names  of  all  scholars  to  be  entered  on  the  records. 

AHT.  7th.  Pupils  of  good  character,  who  have  completed  the  study  of 
Geography,  Grammar,  Arithmetic  and  the  History  of  the  United  States  and 
the  rudimentary  branches  as  taught  in  the  Grammar  Schools  of  the  town,  on 
examination  or  on  certificate  satisfactory  to  the  Prudential  Committee,  shall 
be  admitted  to  membership  in  the  school  with  all  its  privileges,  free  of  tui- 
tion, if  they  belong  to  town.  Pupils  from  out  of  town  shall  be  entitled  to 
membership  on  payment  of  tuition  at  rates  established  by  the  Prudential 
Committee.  In  special  cases  pupils  whose  needs  are  not  met  in  other  schools, 
may  be  admitted  to  membership  for  the  winter  term,  on  the  approval  of  the 
Prudential  Committee,  provided  they  can  be  taught  to  advantage  in  existing 
classes. 

ART.  8th.  All  students  shall  be  in  subjection  to  the  authority  and  govern- 
ment of  the  institution,  shall  be  punctual  and  seasonable  in  their  attendance 
upon  its  exercises,  orderly  and  studious  in  their 'habits,  decent  in  their  apparel 
and  deportment  and  shall  in  all  things  conform  to  the  rules  and  regulations 
which  are  or  may  be  prescribed  for  their  direction  or  Government. 

ART.  9th.  All  damages  shall  be  estimated  by  the  principal  and  repaired  by 
those  who  occasion  them. 

ART.  10th.  Each  meeting  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  shall  be  opened  with 
prayer  by  the  president  or  some  person  nominated  by  him. 

ART.  llth.  Any  alteration  or  amendment  of  these  by-laws  shall  be  pro- 
posed at  a  previous  meeting. 

ART.  12th.  All  by-laws  or  parts  of  by-laws  inconsistent  with  the  forgoing 
are  hereby  repealed. 


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SCHOOL  HOUSES. 

The  committee  in  trust  with  the  Hopkins  Fund  seem  never  to  have 
built  a  school  house  for  their  use  until  after  the  act  incorporating 
Hopkins  Academy  in  1816.  Nathaniel  Ward,  who  died  in  1664,  gave 
a  piece  of  his  homelot  on  the  street  with  his  house  for  the  use  of  the 
school.  A  part  of  this  building  was  used  for  a  school  house  for  many 
years.  After  1688  a  room  was  hired  for  the  school.  In  1710  the 
Ward  house  was  said  to  be  "  ready  to  fall  down."  It  had  probably 
ceased  to  be  used  for  school  purposes. 

July  13,  1698  the  town  voted  to  build  a  school  house  25  by  18  feet 
and  7  feet  between  joints,  to  be  set  in  "  middle  of  the  town."  This 
was  the  first  school  house  built  in  Hadley.  It  stood  in  the  broad 
street. 

The  Hopkins  school,  says  Mr.  Judd,  was  apparently  the  only 
public  school  in  the  old  parish  of  Hadley,  for  more  than  a  century, 
except  a  school  for  boys  and  girls  voted  in  1760  for  that  year.  It 
was  the  common  or  town  school.  The  master,  with  rare  exceptions, 
was  a  man  of  collegiate  education  and  he  instructed  some  in  Greek 
and  Latin,  but  most,  only  in  reading,  writing  and  arithmetic.  When 
Hadley  had  99  families  in  1695,  there  was  but  one  town  school. 
There  still  survives  one  man  who  remembers  attending  the  Hopkins 
school  kept  in  the  house  in  the  middle  of  the  street  early  in  this 
century.* 

Following  the  act  of  incorporation  came  the  erection  of  the  Acad- 
emy building.  No  votes  of  the  Trustees  are  on  record  looking  to  the 
choice  and  purchase  of  the  site  or  the  contract  for  building.  .The 
name  of  the  builder  is  not  preserved.  The  lot,  63  feet  front,  53  feet 
deep,  containing  thirteen  rolls  of  land,  was  part  of  the  homestead  of 
Mr.  Chester  Gaylord  and  was  bought  of  him  for  the  sum  of  fifty 
dollars.  The  building  fronted  south  on  the  street  known  as  Middle 
Lane  and  later  as  Academy  Lane  and  Russell  street.  It  was  a  plain 
brick  structure  painted, three  stories  high,  having  its  entrance  close  to 
the  sidewalk  with  no  yard  in  front,  and  only  a  narrow  space  on  the 
other  sides.  April  7,  1817,  the  town  voted  that  the  Trustees  be  per- 
mitted to  enclose  a  part  of  this  middle  lane  in  front  of  their  building 
for  a  yard  under  the  direction  of  the  selectmen  not  exceeding  four- 
teen' feet  in  width.  The  ground  floor  was  divided  equally  into  two 
school  rooms,  one  on  either  side  of  the  hall,  running  through  the 
building  from  south  to  north. 

*Dea.  Simeon  Dickinson  who  died  May,  1800,  aged  95. 


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The  second  story  had  five  apartments.  A  small  one  over  the 
entrance  at  the  south  was  sometimes  used  for  a  library.  The  other 
rooms  were  repositories  for  chemical  and  philosophical  apparatus  and 
recitation  rooms  as  they  were  needed. 

The  whole  of  the  third  story  was  known  as  the  Academy  Hall, 
which  was  thought  to  be  fine  and  attractive.  Its  eastern  end  was  oc- 
cupied by  a  stage  raised  about  four  feet  above  the  floor.  This  Hall  was 
used  for  rhetorical  exercises  every  Wednesday  afternoon,  quarterly 
examinations  and  for  exhibitions  and  public  lectures  and  sometimes 
for  preaching  services  on  Sunday.  The  congregation  of  the  Russell 
church  worshiped  in  it  for  several  months  during  the  erection  of  their 
church  building,  when  they  had-  Rev.  Dr.  Allen,  ex-president  of 
Bowdoin  College,  as  their  preacher,  and  likewise  Rev.  H.  B.  Smith, 
1).  1).,  Prof,  at  Amherst  College  and  afterwards  at  Union  Theol.  Sem. 
He  was  known  to  say,  "  In  that  hall  I  spread  my  wings."  These 
apartments  were  severely  plain  and  poorly  equipped  and  furnished  for 
the  work  to  be  done  in  them,  according  to  the  standards  of  to-day. 
But  notwithstanding  these  limitations,  good  work  was  done  and 
benign  results  wrought  in  the  development  of  character  in  the  young 
people,  who  resorted  hither  for  instruction  and  training,  of  which  not 
a  few  living  witnesses  are  left,  though  the  departed  are  now  the 
majority. 

Means  for  building  were  obtained  in  part  by  voluntary  subscriptions. 
Some  ninety  persons  became  subscribers  for  this  object  in  sums  vary- 
ing from  fifty  cents  to  eighty  dollars.  A  very  small  fraction  of  these 
subscriptions  was  paid  in  money,  VJut  more  in  labor,  in  building  mate- 
rial and  supplies  of  one  kind  or  other. 

Windsor  Smith,  a  merchant  of  that  time,  subscribed  forty  dollars 
in  two  installments,  one  of  twenty-five  and  one  of  fifteen  dollars,  and 
twenty-five  dollars  of  this  amount  was  paid  in  two  installments  each, 
of  ten  gallons  of  rum,  at  seven  shillings  and  sixpence  a  gallon,  with- 
out which  those  walls  could  not  have  risen.  It  is  possible  that  liquor 
in  still  larger  quantity  was  deemed  needful  to  this  work,  but  hidden 
from  notice  among  charges  for  "  sundries."  In  the  treasurer's 
accounts  under  date  May  7,  1817,  these  charges  are  found,  "  33  galls, 
rum  at  6s.,  9d.  bbl.  7s,  $38.29,  1  qt.  mug,  1  H  Ibs.  sugar  .31." 

The  accounts  for  building  were  audited  Nov.  28,  1817  and  the 
whole  expenses  of  the  Academy  so  far  as  then  finished,  found  to  be 
$4954.90.  This  sum  is  much  larger  than  the  amount  subscribed. 
The  costs  of  building  beyond  this,  were  paid  from  the  treasury  of  the 


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institution  by  degrees  from  time  to  time.  The  treasurer's  accounts 
lead  to  this  inference. 

Before  the  opening  of  the  school  a  service  of  dedication  was  held 
Dec.  9,  1817. 

The  prayer  of  dedication  was  offered  in  Academy  Hall  by  Rev. 
Joseph  Lyman,  D.  D.,  of  Hatfield,  President  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees. Divine  service  appropriate  to  the  occasion  was  attended  at  the 
meeting  house  at  2  o'clock  i\  M.  A  sermon  was  preached  by  Rev. 
John  Woodbridge,  from  Dent,  vi :  7,  "And  thou  shalt  teach  them 
diligently  unto  thy  children."  The  Trustees  voted  that  the  thanks  of 
the  board  be  given  to  Rev.  Mr.  Woodbridge  for  his  sermon  and  that 
a  copy  be  requested  for  publication. 

Dec.  10,  1817,  the  day  following  the  dedication,  the  school  was 
opened  under  Rev.  Dan  Huntington  as  preceptor  and  Giles  C.  Kel- 
logg, Esq.  and  Miss  Sophia  Mosely,  assistants.  The  first  catalogue 
published  in  1818,  has  the  name  of  Miss  Sally  Willistou  of  East- 
hampton,  as  preceptress,  from  which  it  would  appear  that  although 
Miss  Mosely  had  been  engaged,  she  did  not  serve  that  year,  but  was 
employed  the  year  succeeding.  For  the  second  year  Mr.  Hunting-ton's 
salary  was  five  hundred  dollars.  Mr.  Kellogg  had  twenty  dollars  a 
month  and  board  with  promise  of  more  if  the  condition  of  the  funds 
would  warrant  an  increase.  Miss  Mosely  was  to  have  twelve  dollars 
a  month  and  board. 


CHAPTER  X. 

HOPKINS  ACADEMY  IN  COURT.     TOWN  OF  HADLEY  VS. 
TRUSTEES  OF  HOPKINS  ACADEMY. 

Under  this  Charter  and  Constitution  Hopkins  Academy  entered 
upon  its  career  of  usefulness,  having  a  large  number  of  pupils  from  out 
of  town  as  well  as  from  within,  employing  a  principal  and  one  or 
more  assistants.  This  course  of  prosperity  continued  without 
hindrance  or  molestation  until  1831,  when  at  the  annual  town  meeting 
held  April  -1th,  adjourned  from  March  '28th,  of  that  year,  it  was  voted 
that  a  committee  of  three  be  appointed  for  investigating  the  subject 
of  the  Hopkins  Fund  to  report  at  the  May  meeting. 

Voted  that  the  Hon.  Chas.  P.  Phelps,  Giles  C.  Kellogg  and  Col. 
Ephraim  Smith  be  the  committee. 

At  a  meeting  held  May  llth,  the  committee  above  named  to  ascer- 
tain whether  the  Funds  of  the  Hopkins  School  have  been  appropriated 
by  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  for  the  benefit  of  the  Town  of 
Iladley,  conformably  to  the  intentions  of  the  donors,  reported  that  in 
their  judgment,  after  perusing  the  documents  bearing  on  the  question, 
that  the  Town  would  be  better  satisfied  with  the  opinion  of  men 
learned  in  the  law,  than  with  their  own.  They,  therefore,  had  con- 
sulted Messrs.  Hillings  and  Clark  who,  after  examination  of  the 
documents  referred  to,  give  their  opinion  of  the  interesting  question 
presented  to  them  and  the  argument  by  which  it  is  supported,  which 
the  committee  now  present  for  the  consideration  of  the  town.  This 
report,  was  accepted  and  filed. 

It  was  further  voted  at  the  same  meeting  that  a  committee  of  three 
be  appointed  with  full  power  to  take  all  such  measures  as  may  be 
necessary  to  obtain  an  adjudication  or  judicial  decision  of  the  question 
"Have  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  in  Hadley,  applied  the 
income  and  proceeds  of  the  Hopkins  School  Fund  (so-called)  and  of 
the  funds  and  estates  heretofore  contributed  thereunto  by  the  Town  of 
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Hadley  or  any  of  the  inhabitants  thereof  and  which  have  fallen  under 
the  control  and  management  of  the  said  Trustees  in  all  respects  con- 
formably to  the  intentions  of  the  donors,  in  order  solely  that  if  by  such 
decision  any  misappropriation  of  said  income  and  proceeds  shall 
appear  to  have  been  made  by  the  said  Trustees,  they  may  hereafter 
apply  the  same  in  conformity  to  such  decision. 

Voted  that  the  committee  appointed  at  the  last  meeting,  to  whom 
the  subject  of  the  application  of  the  Funds  \vas  then  referred,  be  the 
committee  for  procuring  the  decision. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  Aug.  lf>,  is;',l, 
the  following  proposition  was  then  made,  seconded  and  adopted  : 

Whereas  the  Town  of  Hadley  has  directed  a  suit  to  be  commenced 
against  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy. 

Voted  that  the  Prudential  Committee  be,  and  are  hereby  authorized 
to  procure  good  counsel  and  adopt  all  other  suitable  measures  which 
may  be  necessary  for  a  defence  in  the  case. 

The  case  was  heard  in  the  Supreme  Court,  Sept.  term,  1833,  and 
the  report  of  the  case  and  the  decision  reached  are  given  below. 

THE  INHABITANTS  OF  HADLEY  VERSUS  THE  TRUSTEES 
OF  HOPKINS  ACADEMY. 

In  1057,  Edward  Hopkins,  of  England  devised  estate,  real  and  personal,  to 
certain  individuals,  in  full  assurance  of  their  trust  and  faithfulness  in  dis- 
posing of  the  same  according  to  the  true  intent  and  purpose  of  the  testator, 
namely,  "to  give  some  encouragement  to  those  foreign  plantations  (New 
England)  in  breeding  of  hopeful  youth  in  a  way  of  learning  both  at  the 
Grammar  School  and  College  for  the  public  service  of  the  country  in  future 
times.'' 

In  16G4  the  Trustees  executed  an  instrument  under  seal,  by  which  they  order 
that  "the  property  be  equally  divided  between  the  towns  of  New  Haven  and 
Iladley  to  be  in  each  of  those  towns  respectively  managed  and  improved 
towards  the  erecting  and  maintaining  of  a  grammar  school  in  each  of  them 
and  the  management  thereof  to  be  in  the  hands  of  our  assigns,  which  are  for 
that  at  New  Haven,  &c.,  and  for  that  at  Hadley  J.  K.  &c.  These  we 
constitute  to  be  our  Trustees  for  the  ordering  of  said  estate  and  car- 
rying on  the  work,  wherein  it  is  to  be  employed,  in  their  town,  hereby 
committing  to  them  and  investing  them  with  full  power  to  act  in  the 
same,  in  all  respects  as  ourselves,  both  in  managing  the  trust  themselves 
and  in  choosing  successors  from  time  to  time  &c.  who  shall  have  full 
power  to  pursue  and  put  in  execution  the  pious  end  and  intentions  of  the 
worthy  donor,  yet  reserving  to  ourselves  while  we  live,  the  full  power  of  a 
negative  vote,  for  the  hindering  anything  that  may  cross  that  end."  In  H!f>4 
another  testator  devised  land  "to  the  town  of  Hadley,  for  promoting  and 


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advancement  of  a  school  for  learning."  In  the  same  year  another  testator 
devised  "  to  the  town  of  lladley  "  certain  real  estate  "  to  be  improved  towards 
the  maintaining  of  a  school  ever."  In  1GG6  the  town  passed  the  following 
vote  "  The  town  have  granted  to  and  for  the  use  of  a  grammar  school  in  this 
town  of  lladley,  and  to  be  and  remain  perpetually  to  and  for  the  use  of  said 
school "  certain  lands  specified  in  the  vote.  In  1GG9  one  of  the  surviving 
trustees  made  a  proposal  to  the  town  of  Hadley,  that  he  should  appoint  three 
persons,  to  be  submitted  to  the  town  and  to  be  approved  of  by  them,  and 
that  the  town  should  appoint  two  and  that  these  five  with  himself  whilst  he 
lived,  should  have  the  sole  disposal  and  management  of  the  estate  in  all 
respects,  for  the  end  to  which  it  was  bequeathed;  and  that  the  same  live 
persons  with  himself  whilst  he  lived,  should  have  the  sole  management  of  all 
other  estate  given  by  any  donor,  or  which  might  be  given  while  they  survived, 
to  the  town  of  Hadley,  for  the  promoting  of  literature  or  learning;  that 
these  Trustees  should  have  power  to  perpetuate  the  Board  by  tilling  their 
own  vacancies ;  and  that  the  school  should  be  called  the  Hopkins  school. 
The  town  approved  of  three  persons  named  by  the  Trustees  and  appointed  two 
themselves,  and  voted  that  "the  committee  thus  chosen  should  jointly  and 
together  have  the  full  ordering  and  disposal  of  the  estate  given  by  the  Trus- 
tees of  Hopkins  to  the  town  of  Hadley,  or  any  other  estate  or  .estates  that 
were  or  might  be  given,  either  by  the  town  itself  or  by  any  other  donor,  for 
the  use,  benefit  and  maintenance  and  promoting  a  grammar  school  to  and  for 
the  use  and  in  the  town  of  Hadley."  In  1675  another  testator  devised  land 
to  the  town  of  Hadley,  "committing  it  to  the  care,  disposing  and  ordering  of 
S.  S.  &c.  [naming  the  persons  constituting  the  Hopkins  school  committee] 
to  be  by  them  disposed  of  (in  case  they  quietly  keep  and  remain  in  their  com- 
mitteeship  for  Hopkins  school)  unto  Hopkins  School  for  Hadley ;  but  if  they 
be  put  out  or  disturbed  in  that  committeeship,  then  to  be  disposed  of  as  they 
see  meet,  for  the  good  of  the  town."  It  was  held  that  the  legal  estate  in  the 
property  given  by  Hopkins,  did  not,  by  his  will  and  the  instrument  made  by 
his  Trustees  in  lGG4rfvest  in  the  town  of  Hadley;  that  the  devise  was  not 
made  for  the  purpose  of  founding  a  common  town  school  for  the  exclusive 
benefit  of  the  inhabitants  of  that  town,  but  was  designed  for  the  encourage- 
ment of  all  persons  in  that  (then)  newly  settled  part  of  the  country,  who 
should  desire  to  avail  themselves  of  the  benefit  of  a  grammar  school  adapted 
to  instruct  and  qualify  pupils  for  the  university ;  that  a  long  continued  usage 
of  admitting  pupils  from  other  towns  than  Hadley,  to  participate  in  the 
benefits  of  the  Hopkins  school,  was  of  Aveight  in  establishing  such  construc- 
tion of  the  devise ;  and  that  all  the  other  donations  above  mentioned  were  to 
be  held  upon  the  same  trusts  and  be  appropriated  to  the  same  purposes  as 
the  principal  one  from  Hopkins. 

It  is  probable  that  in  1666  the  county  courts  and  the  President  and 
Council  of  New  England  had  jurisdiction  over  trusts  of  the  kind  above 
described. 


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BILL  IN  EQUITY. 

The  bill  alleges,  that  in  1057,  Edward  Hopkins,  Esquire,  a  resident 
in  the  Kingdom  of  Great  Britain,  by  his  last  will  bequeathed  and  devised 
as  follows:  "And  the  residue  of  my  estate  there  (New  England)  I  do 
hereby  give  and  bequeath  to  my  Father  Theophilus  Eaton,  Esquire,  Mr.  John 
Davenport,  Mr.  John  Cullick  and  Mr.  William  Goodwin,  in  full  assurance  of 
their  trust  and  faithfulness  in  disposing  of  it,  according  to  the  true  intent 
and  purpose  of  me,  the  said  Edward  Hopkins,  which  is  to  give  some  encour- 
agement in  those  foreign  plantations  for  the  breeding  up  of  hopeful  youth  in 
a  way  of  learning,  both  at  the  grammar  school  and  college,  for  the  public 
service  of  the  country  in  future  times.  My  further  mind  and  will  is,  that 
within  six  months  after  the  decease  of  my  wife,  tive  hundred  pounds  be 
made  over  into  New  England,  according  to  the  advice  of  my  loving  friends 
Major  Robert  Thompson  and  Mr.  Francis  Willoughby ;  and  conveyed  into 
the  hands  of  the  Trustees  before  mentioned,  in  further  prosecution  of  the 
aforesaid  public  ends,  which  in  the  simplicity  of  my  heart  are  for  the  up- 
holding and  promoting  of  the  Kingdom  of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ  in  those 
parts  of  the  earth  :"  That  in  1064,  Davenport  and  Goodwin  being  the  only 
surviving  Trustees,  by  an  instrument  under  their  hands  and  seals,  after 
reciting  the  trusts  and  powers  given  to  them  in  the;  will,  proceed  to  execute 
the  trust  and  dispose  of  the  property  confided  to  them  in  manner  following : 
"  We  therefore,  the  said  John  Davenport  and  William  Goodwin,  being  the 
only  survivors  of  the  said  Trustees,  for  answering  the  trusts  committed  to 
us  by  the  last  will  and  testament  of  our  worthy  honored  friend,  do  order  and 
dispose  of  said  estate  as  follows,  &c.  (disposing  of  a  portion  of  the  property 
confided  to  them,  and  then  proceeding:)  we  do  further  order  and  appoint, 
that  the  rest  of  Mr.  Hopkins  his  estate,  both  that  which  is  in  New  England 
and  £500,  which  is  to  come  from  Old  England  when  it  shall  become  due  to  us 
after  Mrs.  Hopkins  her  decease,  be  all  of  it  equally  divided  between  the  towns 
of  New  Haven  and  Hadley,  to  be  in  each  of  those  towns  respectively  managed 
and  improved  towards  the  erecting  and  maintaining  of  41  Grammar  School  in 
each  of  them." 

That  in  1064  John  Barnard,  in  his  last  will,  devised  "  unto  the  town  of 
Hadley  for  promoting  and  advancement  of  a  school  for  learning,  twelve 
acres,  one  rood  and  nine  poles  of  meadow  land,  perpetually  to  be  and  remain 
to  the  use  aforesaid,  lying  within  the  lands  of  the  township  of  Hadley,  six 
acres  two  roods  and  twenty-nine  poles  lying  in  the  meadow  called  llocka- 
num ;  another  parcel  in  the  meadow  called  the  Great  Meadow,  containing  live 
acres,  two  roods,  twenty  poles;"  and  that  in  a  codicil  he  devised  as  follows : 
"  To  the  use  and  towards  the  maintenance  of  a  school,  I  give  perpetually  my 
piece  of  land  lying  in  the  Forlorn;  as  also  my  piece  of  land  that  lies  in  Ilock- 
anum ;  and  also  that  land  I  have  given  to  a  school ;  if  there  be  not  a  school  in 
Hadley  at  the  decease  of  my  wife,  then  the  land  to  be  improved  by  four  of 
the  poorest  men  in  town  till  there  be  a  school  set  up." 

That  in  1004,  Nathaniel  Ward  devised  as  follows :  Item,  to  the  town  of 
Hadley,  I  give,  after  the  decease  of  my  wife,  my  now  dwelling  house,  with 
about  five  roods  or  an  acre  and  a  half  of  land  on  which  it  standeth,  and  my 


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lot  of  live  acres,  more  or  less,  in  north  meadow,  and  my  lot  in  Ilockanum 
containing  nine  acres,  more  or  less;  to  be  improved  towards  the  maintaining 
of  a  school  ever." 

That  in  1G(J(J  the  town  of  Iladley  passed  the  following  vote :  "  The  town 
have  granted  to  and  for  the  use  of  a  grammar  school  in' this  town  of  Iladley, 
and  to  be  and  remain  perpetually  to  and  for  the  use  of  said  school,  the  two 
little  meadows  next  beyond  the  brook  commonly  called  the  mill  brook,  and 
as  much  land  to  be  laid  to  the  same  as  the  committee,  chosen  by  the  town, 
shall,  in  their  discretion,  see  meet  and  needful,  provided,  withal,  it  be  left  to 
the  judgment  of  the  said  committee,  that  so  much  of  the  second  meadow 
shall  be  excepted  from  the  said  grant  as  that  there  may  be  a  feasible  and 
convenient  passage  for  cattle  to  their  feed." 

That  in  l(i(!i),  by  agreement  between  Goodwin  and  the  town  of  Iladley,  five 
persons  were  chosen,  partly  by  Goodwin  and  partly  by  the  town,  as  a  joint 
committee,  "  who  together  with  Goodwin  while  he  lived,  and  after  his 
decease  should  jointly  and  together  have  the  ordering  and  full  dispose  of  the 
estate  or  estates  given  by  Mr.  Davenport  and  Mr.  Goodwin(as  trustees  as  afore- 
said to  Mr.  Hopkins)  to  this  town  of  Hadley,  or  any  other  estate  or  estates 
that  ever  may  be  given,  either  by  the  town  itself,  or  any  other  donor  or  don- 
ors for  the  use,  benefit  and  maintenance  and  promoting  a  grammar  school  to 
and  for  the  use  and  in  the  town  of  Iladley."  That  it  was  also  agreed  that  the 
committee  should  have  power  to  fill  vacancies  in  their  number  occasioned  by 
death. 

That  in  1(575,  Henry  Clark  devised  as  follows  :  "  My  nine  acre  lot  in  Hock- 
anuin  in  the  town  of  Hadley,  and  two  acres  and  a  half  of  my  lot  in  the  lower 
end  of  Great  Meadow  in  Hadley,  on  the  other  side  of  the  lot,  I  give  to  the 
town  of  Hadley,  committing  it  to  the  care  of  Lieut. Samuel  Smith,  Ensign  Cook, 
Dea.  Tilton  and  Mr.  John  Russell,  junior,  to  be  by  them  disposed  of  (in  case 
they  quiety  keep  and  remain  in  their  committeeship  for  Hopkins  School)  unto 
Hopkins  school  for  Hadley;  but  if  they  be  put  out  of  or  disturbed  in  that 
committeeship,  then  to  be  otherwise  disposed  of  as  they  or  the  survivors  of 
them  see  meet  for  the  good  of  the  town." 

That  the  committee  above  described  and  their  successors  continued  to  have 
the  management  of  the  property  and  to  appropriate  its  annual  income  agree- 
ably to  the  uses  and  for  the  purposes  above  mentioned,  until  181(>,  when  the 
committee,  in  concurrence  with  the  town  of  Hadley,  petitioned  the  legislature 
for  an  act  of  incorporation ;  and  an  act  was  accordingly  passed,  entitled,  "an 
Act  to  incorporate  the  trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy."  That  the  trustees  of 
the  academy  succeeded  to  and  accepted  of  the  trust  above  described ;  and 
that  in  and  by  the  act  of  incorporation,  all  the  lands  and  moneys,  which  had 
been  heretofore  given  or  subscribed  to  the  committee  before  mentioned,  for 
the  use  of  the  school,  are  confirmed  to  the  trustees  of  the  academy  and  their 
successors  forever,  for  the  uses  designated  by  the  donors." 

That  the  plaintiffs  hoped  the  trustees  would  have  managed  the  property 
and  appropriated  the  annual  income,  thereof,  to  and  for  the  uses  designated 
by  the  donors,  and  according  to  the  agreement  between  Goodwin  and  the 
town  of  Iladley,  for  the  use  and  benefit  and  maintenance  and  promoting  a 


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Grammar  School,  to  ami  for  the  use  of  the  town  and  its  inhabitants,  but  that 
they  refuse,  and  have  for  a  long  time  refused  to  administer  the  trust,  accord- 
ing- to  the  directions  of  the  donors,  and  to  appropriate  the  annual  avails  of 
the  property  to  and  for  the  exclusive  use  and  benefit  of  the  plaintiffs,  and 
have  appropriated  the  same,  as  well  to  the  use  and  benefit  of  others,  as  of  the 
plaintiffs,  and  sometimes  to  the  exclusion  of  the  plaintiffs. 

The  bill  then  prays  for  disclosure  and  relief. 

The  defendants  in  their  answer,  admit  that  Hopkins,  Barnard,  Ward  and 
Clark  made  the  several  devises,  and  that  the  town  of  llaclley  made  the  grant 
set  forth  in  the  bill. 

They  admit,  that  in  1<!(>4,  Davenport  and  Goodwin,  for  the  execution  of  the 
trust  created  by  the  will  of  Hopkins,  made  an  instrument,  containing  the 
clause  recited  in  the  bill,  but  they  allege  that  after  that  clause,  the  instru- 
ment proceeded  as  follows,  "  And  the  management,  thereof,  be  in  the  hands 
of  our  assigns,  which  are  for  that  at  New  Haven  at  present,  (and  so  to  con- 
tinue, unless  some  other  way  be  by  us  agreed  on)  the  town  court  of  New 
Haven,  consisting  of  the  magistrates  and  deputies  and  the  ollicers  of  the 
church  at  New  Haven,  and  for  that  at  Had  ley,  John  Russell,  junior,  pastor  of 
the  church  of  Christ  at  Hadley,  Lieut.  Samuel  Smith,  Andrew  Bacon  and 
Peter  Tilton,  these  we,  the  said  John  Davenport  and  William  Goodwin,  do 
appoint  and  constitute  to  be  our  trustees,  for  the  ordering  of  the  estate  and 
carrying  on  the  work,  wherein  it  is  to  be  employed,  each  in  their  several 
towns  respectively ;  hereby  committing  to  them  and  investing  them  with  full 
power  to  act  in  the  same,  in  their  several  towns  respectively;  in  all  respects, 
as  ourselves,  both  in  managing  the  trust  themselves  ami  in  choosing  succes- 
sors from  time  to  time,  as  they  shall  see  meet,  who,  or  the  major  part  of 
whom,  (or  in  case  at  any  time  the  rest  of  the  trustees  being  taken  away 
before  others  be  chosen,  any  of  whom)  may  and  shall  have  full  power  to 
pursue  and  put  in  execution  the  pious  end  and  intendment  of  the  worthy 
donor;  yet  reserving  to  ourselves  while  we  live,  the  full  power  of  :i  negative 
vote  for  the  hindering  anything  that  may  cross  that  end."  The  defendants 
further  say,  that  the  agreement  made  in  1(!(!1),  between  Goodwin  and  the 
town,  was  as  follows  :  "  Mr.  Goodwin  proposeth  as  that  wherein  he  is  willing 
to  concur,  viz.  as  to  the  ordering  of  the  estate  distributed  and  given  by  Mr. 
Davenport  and  himself  (as  trustees  of  Mr.  Hopkins)  to  the  town  of  Hadley, 
donors  of  the  said  estate,  both  for  the  present  and  the  future,  he,  the  said 
Goodwin  hath  chosen  three  persons  or  will  choose  them,  to  have  power  in 
the  premises;  he  is  willing  also  that  the  town  should  make  choice  of  two 
more  able  and  pious  men,  which  live  persons,  together  with  himself,  shall 
have  the  sole  and  full  dispose  and  management  of  the  estate  above  expressed, 
in  all  respects,  for  the  end  to  which  it  is  bequeathed.  2.  As  also  the  said 
five  persons  together  with  himself  while  he  lives,  to  have  the  sole  dispose 
and  management  of  all  other  estate  or  estates  given  by  any  donor,  or  that 
may  be  while  they  survive,  to  the  town  of  Hadley,  for  the  promotion  of  liter- 
ature or  learning. 

3.  These  five  persons  to  continue,  abide  and  remain  in  the  work  above 
expressed,  till  death  or  other  providence  of  God  remove  any  of  them,  and 


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the  survivors  to  choose  to  themselves  the  full  number  aforesaid.  4.  Mr. 
Goodwin  desires  the  name  of  the  school  may  be  called  Hopkins  school,  which 
communication  being  so  made  to  the  town  of  Iladley  on  March  20,  IfidO,  the 
town,  on  the  20th  of  the  same  March  voted,  that  Mr.  Goodwin  be  sent  to  by 
the  town,  to  know  the  persons  lie  will  make  choice  of  as  respects  the  prem- 
ises. He  returns,  that  he  lias  chosen  Mr.  John  Russell,  pastor  of  the  church 
at  Iladley,  Lieut.  Samuel  Smith  and  Aaron  Cook;  and  the  said  towTn  voted 
their  approbation  of  Mr.  Goodwin's  choice.  The  town  also  voted  Nathaniel 
Dickinson  and  Peter  Tilton  to  join  with  the  persons  before  mentioned,  as  a 
joint  committee,  who,  together  with  Mr.  Goodwin,  while  he  lives,  and  after 
his  decease,  shall  jointly  and  together  have  the  ordering  and  full  dispose  of 
the  estate  or  estates  given  by  Mr.  Davenport  and  Mr.  Goodwin  (as  trustees 
as  aforesaid  to  Mr.  Hopkins)  to  the  town  of  Iladley,  or  any  other  estate  or 
estates  that  are  or  may  be  given,  cither>by  the  town  itself,  or  any  other  donor 
or  donors,  for  the  use,  benefit  and  maintenance  and  promoting  a  grammar 
school  to  and  for  the  use  and  in  the  town  of  Iladley;  as  also  jointly  and 
together  to  do,  act  and  conclude,  iinish  and  execute,  anything  respecting  the 
premises,  faithfully  and  according  to  their  best  discretion.  Voted  also  by 
the  town,  that  as  to  the  five  persons,  before  expressed,  if  any  decease  or  be 
otherwise  disabled  by  the  providence  of  God,  the  rest  surviving  shall  have 
the  sole  choice  of  any  other  in  the  room  and  place  of  those  surceasing,  to  the 
full  number  of  live  persons,  provided  they  be  known  discreet,  pious,  faithful 
persons.  And  the  town  directed  Mr.  Clark  and  Peter  Tilton  to  present  the 
premises  to  the  court  to  be  recorded."  They  further  state,  that  in  1671,  the 
town  granted  a  piece  of  land  near  the  corn  mill,  for  the  erecting  a  dwelling 
house  upon  the  same  for  a  miller,  which  grant  had  this  provision  viz.,  that 
whatever  land  or  estate  with  said  house  and  mill  etc.  that  hath  been  given  by 
the  town  of  Iladley  or  any  other,  for  the  maintaining  a  grammar  school  there, 
be  ordered,  managed  and  disposed  by  the  present  school  committee  in  being, 
and  after  them  by  their  successors  whom  they  shall  choose,  provided  thev  he 
still  pious,  discreet,  faithful  men;  otherwise  the  said  grant  to  be  void  and 
invalid  to  the  end  and  purposes  aforesaid." 

They  further  state  that  at  a  county  court  held  at  Springfield,  in  September, 
1082,  an  order  was  passed  accepting  and  allowing  a  return  from  the  commit- 
tee of  the  Hopkins  School,  and  taking  notice  that  John  Russell,  Aaron  Cook, 
Philip  Smith  and  Samuel  Partridge  constitute  the  committee  and  approving 
of  them  all,  and  desiring  their  further  management  and  carrying  on  of  the 
a  Hairs  of  the  school,  from  time  to  time,  which  the  court  would  be  always 
ready  to  promote  and  encourage  as  need  might  require. 

They  further  state,  that  while  the  care  of  the  school  was  thus  lawfully  in 
the  hands  and  under  the  oversight  of  a  committee  with  full  powers  to 
manage  the  same  without  the  intervention  of  the  town,  yet  about  August  23 
li'.sc,  the  town  voted,  "  to  take  into  their  own  hands  to  manage,  order  and 
dispose  to  the  use  of  a  school  in  the  town  of  Iladley,  all  the  estates  of  houses 
and  lands  bequeathed  and  given  by  any  donor  or  donors,  in  their  last  wills 
and  testaments,  to  the  town  of  Iladley,  or  to  a  school  in  said  town,  as  the 
legacy  of  Nathaniel  Ward.  John  Barnard  and  Henry  Clark  :"  which  interfer- 


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ence  on  the  part  of  the  town,  induced  the  committee  of  Hopkins  school  to 
apply  to  the  County  Court  held  at  Springfield,  in  September,  168G,  being  a 
court  having  jurisdiction  of  the  premises,  whereupon  the  following  order 
was  passed  viz  :  "  The  declining  estate  of  Hopkins  School  in  Hadley  being 
presented  to  this  court  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  John  Russell,  Aaron  Cook,  Joseph 
Kellogg  and  Samuel  Porter,  the  committee  of  said  school,  for  that  some  of 
Iladley  do  disturb  or  obstruct  the  management  of  the  estate  of  said  school, 
therefore  this  court  do  order  and  declare  that  the  whole  donations  to  a  school 
there,  from  the  charitable  donors,  be  all  employed  and  improved  for  and 
towards  the  maintenance  of  the  Grammar  school  in  Hadley;  it  appearing  that 
the  intent  of  Mr.  Henry  Clark,  in  what  he  gave  to  a  school,  was,  that  it 
should  go  and  be  employed  to  the  said  school  called  Hopkins  school.  Also 
the  like  doth  appear  as  to  goodrnan  Ward's  gift.  And  goodman  Barnard's 
gift  may  as  well  be  taken  for  that  school  as  any  other.  Wherefore  this 
court  order  that  all  said  gifts  and  others,  with  the  land  given  by  Hadley 
town,  be  all  accordingly  improved  by  the  aforesaid  committee."  They 
further  state  that  upon  application  duly  made  to  the  President  and  Council  of 
his  (then)  majesty's  territory  and  dominion  of  New  England  in  America,  upon 
the  concerns  of  the  Hopkins  school  and  the  friends  thereof,  it  was,  on 
December  8,  1080,  ordered  by  the  President  and  Council,  that  the  Committee 
for  the  Hopkins  school  be  and  remain  the  "  Feoffees  of  the  grammar 
school  in  said  town,  and  that  Mr.  Partridge  be  and  hereby  is  dismissed 
from  any  further  service  in  that  matter,  and  that  the  said  committee 
make  report  of  the  present  estate  of  Mr.  Hopkins  and  other  donations  to  s;iid 
school,  which,  (having  been  orderly  annexed  to  the  grammar  school  and  here- 
by confirmed  to  that  service)  unto  the  next  county  court  of  Hampshire,  who 
are  hereby  empowered  to  supply  the  place  of  Mr.  Partridge  with  some  other 
meet  person  in  Hadley,  and  that  the  said  court  do  liud  out  and  order  some 
method  for  the  payment  of  Boltwood's  expenses  upon  the  mill, that  the  mill, 
farm  and  other  lands  given  to  the  scoool,  may  return  to  that  public  use,  the 
president  and  council  hereby  declaring  it  to  be  beyond  the  power  of  the  town 
of  Hadley,  or  any  other  to  divert  any  of  the  lands  or  estate,  or  1 1n- 
said  mill  stream  or  privileges  thereof  (which  are  legally  determined  to  this 
said  grammar  school)  to  any  other  use  whatsoever;  the  president  and  council 
judging  the  particular  gifts  in  that  town  a  good  foundation  for  a  grammar 
school,  both  for  themselves  and  the  whole  county* ;  and  that  the  grammar 
school  can  be  no  otherwise  interpreted,  but  to  be  a  school  holden  by  a  master 
capable  to  instruct  children  and  fit  them  for  the  university.  Council  House. 
Boston,  Dec.  0,  1080." 

They  further  state  that  at  a  county  court  held  at  Northampton  on  June  8th, 
1687,  an  order  was  made  (which  is  set  out  at  length  in  the  answer)  reciting 
the  proceedings  of  the  President  and  Council,  and  of  the  county  court  held 
at  Springfield  in  September,  1080,  and  that  the  court  held  at  Northampton 
approves  of  the  same,  and  concluding  as  follows:  "It  is  there  fore  hereby 
ordered,  that  those  persons  of  Iladley  who  have  any  ways  meddled  or 
intrenched  upon  the  school  estate  thereof,  which  ought  to  be  managed  by 

*Or  country. 


95 

John  Russell,  Aaron  Cook,  Joseph  Kellogg  and  Samuel  Porter,  the  feoffees 
of  said  school  (to  whom  this  court  of  sessions,  according  to  orders,  have  now 
by  consent  and  choice  of  the  rest  of  the  committee  added  Chiliab  Smith  of 
Hadley,  to  make  up  the  number  of  five  feoffees)  do  deliver  up  all  the  estate 
they  have  entered  on,  forthwith,  into  the  hands  and  ordering  of  the  feoffees, 
on  penalty  of  all  damage  that  may  come  to  themselves'  by  neglect  thereof." 
And  the  defendants  therefore  allege,  that  as,  from  their  obvious  nature,  the 
donations  wrere,  and  by  the  judgment  of  the  President  and  Council,  and  of  the 
court  held  at  Northampton,  they  were  adjudged  to  be  "  a  good  foundation 
for  a  grammar  school,  both  for  themselves  and  the  whole  county  "  [or  country] 
and  as  it  was  further  adjudged,  "  that  a  grammar  school  can  be  no  otherwise 
interpreted  but  to  be  a  school  holclen  by  a  master  capable  to  instruct  children  and 
tit  them  for  the  university,"  the  plaintiffs  should  not  now  be  allowed  to  claim 
that  the  committee,  or  those  who  have  succeeded  them  in  the  trust  in  question, 
should  apply  the  trust  fund  exclusively  to  the  use  of  the  inhabitants  of  Hadley. 

The  defendants  admit  that  an  act  of  the  Legislature  was  passed  on  June 
14,  1816  (St.  1815  C.  104)  to  incorporate  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy, 
by  which  it  is  provided,  that  there  shall  be  established  an  academy  in  the 
town  of  Hadley  upon  the  foundation  of  Hopkins  donation  school,  and  that 
the  committee  of  the  school  be  incorporated  into  a  body  politic  by  the  name 
of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy;  and  that  all  the  lands  and  moneys 
heretofore  given  or  subscribed  to  the  committee  for  the  use  of  the  school,  or 
which  shall  be  hereafter  given,  granted  and  assigned  to  the  Trustees  for  the 
use  of  the  academy  shall  be  confirmed  to  the  Trustees,  and  their  successors 
in  that  trust,  forever,  for  the  uses  designated  by  the  donors,  and  that  they 
shall  be  further  capable  of  taking  and  holding  estate,  real  or  personal,  pro- 
vided the  annual  income  of  the  same  shall  not  exceed  $5000  and  that  the  rents 
and  profits  thereof  shall  be  applied  in  such  a  manner  as  that  the  designs  of 
the  donors  may  be  more  effectually  promoted.  And  the  defendants  advise 
that  this  act  was  procured  upon  the  petition  of  the  committee  of  the  donation 
school  acting  in  concurrence  with  the  town,  pursuant  to  a  vote  of  January  1, 
1816,  "  that  the  town  will  unite  with  the  committee  of  the  donation  school 
in  petitioning  the  legislature  for  the  establishment  of  an  academy  in  this 
town."  And  the  defendants  represent  that  the  town,  in  thus  uniting  with  the 
committee,  intended  that  all  the  funds  in  the  hands  of  the  committee  should 
be  hereafter  applied  to  maintaining  an  academy  in  the  town,  upon  the  footing 
and  system  of  other  academies  in  New  England ;  and  that  in  consequence  of 
the  town,s  concurrence  with  the  committee  in  obtaining  the  act  of  incorpor- 
ation, donations  had  been  made  by  the  legislature  and  by  individuals,  for  the 
general  purposes  of  an  academy,  and  it  would  be  a  fraud  upon  such  donors, 
if  the  town  should  now  withdraw  all  the  funds  of  the  donation  school  and 
appropriate  them  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  inhabitants  of  Hadley. 

They  further  allege,  that  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  established  a 
grammar  school  in  Hadley,  and  have  from  time  to  time  furnished  the  best 
instruction  their  ability  permitted,  in  Latin,  Greek,  Astronomy,  Ancient  and 
Modern  History,  Logic,  Ancient  and  Modern  Geography,  Natural,  Moral  and 
Intellectual  Philosophy,  Rhetoric,  Geometry,  Chemistry,  Arithmetic,  Compo- 
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sition,  Reading,  Declamation,  and  such  other  studies  as  are  usually  taught  in 
academies;  that  to  this  school  every  person  iu  Hartley  of  proper  age  and 
qualifications  to  receive  benefit  from  the  school  could  be  admitted  and  none 
such  have  ever  been  refused ;  that  the  Trustees  have  supposed  it  to  be  their 
duty  to  have  at  all  times,  a  master  capable  to  instruct  our  children  and  fit 
them  for  our  university  or  some  of  our  colleges ;  that  the  expense  of  such 
instruction  has  at  all  times  more  than  exhausted  the  whole  annual  income  of 
the  funds  in  the  hands  of  the  Trustees,  and  the  balance  of  the  expenses  has 
been  assessed  on  the  scholars  as  tuition  fees*  that  it  is  true  the  school  has 
been  resorted  to  by  youth  from  other  towns,  but  this  has  not  only  been  in  no 
way  detrimental,  but,  on  the  contrary  has  been  highly  beneficial,  inasmuch  as 
the  excess  of  expenses  of  instruction  over  the  income  of  these  funds,  instead 
of  being  assessed  wholly  upon  the  scholars  who  are  inhabitants  of  Hadley, 
has  been  apportioned  among  all  the  scholars,  while  the  opportunities  for 
instruction  have  been  in  no  degree  lessened. 

In  an  amended  bill  the  plaintiffs  allege  that  no  record  is  to  be  found  of  any 
such  judgment  of  the  President  and  Council  of  New  England,  as  is  stated  in 
the  answer  of  the  defendants,  but  that  from  writings  which  have  been  pre- 
served, it  appears  that  there  wras  a  controversy  between  the  town  of  Hadley 
and  the  committee  above  mentioned,  upon  the  point  whether  the  town  had  a 
right  to  take  into  their  hands  and  management  the  property  mentioned  in  the 
original  bill,  and  appropriate  the  proceeds  to  the  support  of  a  common  school 
in  Hadley,  but  then  the  point  whether  the  committee  were  bound  to  administer 
the  funds  and  appropriate  the  avails  for  the  support  of  a  grammar  school  for 
the  exclusive  use  of  the  town,  was  not  drawn  in  question,  nor  was  the  town 
heard  thereon ;  that  the  declaration  of  the  President  and  Council,  that  the 
donations  were  a  good  foundation  for  a  grammar  school  for  the  whole  county ? 
was  extrajudicial  and  not  authorized  by  the  issue  before  them;  that  at  the 
time  of  the  several  donations  mentioned  in  the  original  bill,  the  town  of 
Hadley  embraced  the  territory  which  now  constitutes,  besides  the  present 
town  of  Hadley,  the  towns  of  Amherst,  South  Hadley,  Gran  by,  Hatfield, 
Williamsburg  and  Whately,  and  that  some  individuals  in  these  towns  might 
have  claimed  that  the  donations  were  to  be  appropriated  for  the  common 
benefit  of  all  these  towns,  and  that  under  such  impressions  students  from 
these  towns  might  have  occasionally  attended  the  school ;  that  the  town  of 
Hadley  has  by  no  act  whatever  recognized  the  right  of  the  committee  or 
Trustees  to  admit  into  the  school  or  academy  students  from  any  other  place 
than  Hadley,  and  that  as  the  plaintiffs  believe,  prior  to  the  act  of  incorpora- 
tion, no  students,  except  from  the  towns  above  mentioned,  ever  attended  the 
school  under  the  claim  of  right ;  that  the  plaintiffs  voted  to  concur  with  the 
committee  in  an  application  to  the  legislature  for  an  act  of  incorporation  in 
the  belief  that  the  funds  could  be  better  managed  by  a  corporation  than  by  a 
committee,  but  without  any  intention  of  surrendering  their  right  to  the 
exclusive  use  and  benefit  thereof  and  that  the  act  was  cautiously  framed  with 
a  view  to  secure  the  exclusive  right  of  the  town. 

In  their  answer  to  the  amended  bill  the  defendants  state  that  there  cannot 
be  found  at  Boston  any  record  of  the  judgment  of  the  President  and  Council, 


and  the  reason  is.  because  there  is  a  loss  of  the  public  records  of  the  General 
Court,  and  also  of  the  council  records,  during  the  period  from  May,  1686,  to 
1689,  when  the  affairs  of  the  province  were  managed  by  a  President  and 
Council ;  but  that  full  transcripts  of  records  of  the  proceedings  stated  in 
their  former  answer,  are  found  in  an  ancient  book  purporting  to  be  records 
of  the  county  court  of  pleas  and  sessions  holden  at  Northampton  for  Hamp- 
shire, for  June  1687,  and  also  in  an  ancient  book  of  records  kept  by  the 
donation  committee,  purporting  to  contain  an  account  of  the  various  dona- 
tions for  the  school,  and  of  the  judgments  of  the  President  and  Council,  and 
of  the  county  courts  of  Hampshire  respecting  the  same ;  that  they  have  no 
knowledge  that  some  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  other  towns  formerly  consti- 
tuting a  part  of  Hadley  claimed  a  common  right  in  those  funds  any  further 
than  appears  from  their  previons  answer ;  that  in  admitting  students  they 
have  not  confined  themselves  to  the  limits  of  Hampshire,  in  its  former  extent 
but  have  adopted  as  their  guide  the  will-of  Edward  Hopkins,  which  expresses 
the  object  of  his  donation,  in  the  manner  before  stated ;  and  that  the  question 
of  the  school  being  a  public  school  for  others  than  those  residing  in  Hadley, 
must  have  been  in  controversy  between  the  towTn  and  the  committee  before 
the  President  and  Council,  at  the  time  of  making  the  adjudication  declaring 
it  a  public  school,  as  set  forth  in  the  former  answer.  The  plaintiffs  filed  a 
general  replication. 

Sept.  23.  At  the  hearing  the  defendants  read  several  depositions  and 
introduced  a  book  of  records  of  the  county  court  reciting  the  proceedings  of 
the  President  and  Council,  and  containing  the  adjudication  of  the  county 
court  thereon,  as  set  forth  in  the  pleadings;  also  a  certificate  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  the  Commonwealth,  that  there  are  no  records  of  the  proceedings  of 
the  Council  from  May,  1686  to  1689. 

Billings  &  Forbes  argued  in  support  of  the  bill  in  regard  to  the  jurisdiction 
of  the  President  and  Council,  they  referred  to  the  ancient  charters,  &c.  52, 
90,  93 ;  and  to  the  point  that  the  proceedings  of  the  President  and  Council 
were  not  conclusive  against  the  plaintiffs,  Smith  v.  Sherwood  4  Connect  II. 
277.  1.  Stark  Evid.  (Metcalf  s  Edit.)  198:  Foster  v.  Jackson  Hob.  53,  Bui.  N. 
P.  233.  Spooner  v.  Davis,  7  Pick.  147  and  authorities  there  cited. 

Bates  &  Dewey  for  the  defendants,  cited  in  regard  to  the  powers  of  the 
Council  and  of  the  county  courts,  1.  Belknap.  Hist.  N.  Hamp.  184  et  seq. ; 
1  Chalmers'  annals  417 ;  Ancient  Charters  &c.  52,  92,  93,  94 ;  4  I)ana,s  Abr.  243 
6  l)ana,s  Abr.  400,  401,  402 ;  and  as  to  the  effect  of  usage  on  interpretation  of 
ancient  grants  attorney  General  v.  Parker  3.  Att.  577. 

The  opinion  of  the  court  was  afterwards  drawn  up  by  Shaw,  C.  J. 

In  order  to  understand  the  true  grounds  of  controversy  in  the  present  case, 
it  may  be  useful,  before  coming  to  a  direct  consideration  of  the  point  in 
controversy,  to  consider  what  the  question  is.  and  to  distinguish  it  from 
others  which  may  be  considered  as  connected  with  it. 

In  the  first  place,  no  question  is  made  of  the  legal  title  of  the  defendants, 
to  the  real  and  personal  property  held  by  them  and  it  is  very  clear  that  no 
such  question  could  be  made  in  a  court  of  equity.  Questions  of  legal  title 
are  to  be  tried  elsewhere.  We  are  not  called  upon  to  consider  an  obvious 


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difficulty,  which  might  have  presented  itself,  before  the  act  of  incorporation, 
in  establishing  a  legal  seizure  in  the  donation  committee,  not  being  a  corpor- 
ation, and  having  no  capacity  to  take  and  hold  real  estate  in  succession. 
Probably,  however,  they  must  have  been  considered  at  least  as  in  actual 
possession  by  taking  the  rents,  and  such  possession  would  have  been  consid- 
ered as  sufficient  against  all  the  world  except  those  who  could  have  set  up  a 
better  title. 

It  is  a  rule  in  Equity  that  a  gift  of  real  or  personal  estate,  either  inter  vivos 
or  by  will,  to  promote  'education  is  a  charity.  It  is  also  considered  as  a 
settled  rule  that  such  a  gift  to  a  charitable  use  is  to  receive  a  most  liberal 
construction;  and  if  the  Trustees  pervert  the  fund  to  other  uses,  or  even  if 
they  refuse  to  accept  or  execute  the  trusts,  the  charity  itself  shall  not  fail, 
nor  will  the  property  revert  to  the  donor.  But  it  will  be  competent  for  a 
court  of  Chancery  to  direct  in  the  former  case  that,  the  Trusts  shall  be 
executed,  and  in  the  latter  that  new  Trustees  shall  be  appointed,  in  wThom 
the  legal  estate  shall  vest,  to  be  holden  in  trust  for  the  purposes  of  the 
charity.  It  is  quite  clear,  therefore,  that,  even  if  the  donation  committee, 
prior  to  the  act  of  incorporation,  had  met  with  a  technical  difficulty  in  main- 
taining their  legal  title,  no  forfeiture  and  no  reversionary  interest  therein, 
could  have  been  claimed  by  the  heirs  of  the  donors,  could  they  still  have  been 
traced,  and  therefore,  as  the  lands  and  estate  must  still  have  been  holden  for 
the  purposes  of  the  trust,  it  would  have  been  very  immaterial,  whether  the 
legal  estate  should  be  considered  as  vested  in  the  particular  individuals  com- 
posing the  donation  committee  or  not.  That  technical  difficulty,  however, 
was  removed  by  the  act  of  incorporation,  passed  with  the  consent  and  indeed 
upon  the  application  of  the  committee,  whereby  they  were  made  capable  in 
law  of  taking  and  holding  the  legal  estate  in  succession.  Another  question 
which  has  been  alluded  to  may  be  considered,  for  the  purpose  of  being  laid 
out  of  the  case.  It  was  stated  in  the  argument  for  the  plaintiffs,  that  the 
defendants,  by  introducing  the  higher  branches  of  science  into  the  Academy, 
have  changed  the  character  of  the  institution  from  that  of  a  school,  to  that 
of  a  college,  whereby  the  inhabitants  of  Hadley  are  deprived  of  the  benefits 
intended  to  be  conferred  upon  them  by  the  establishment  of  a  grammar  school. 
This  complaint  at  first  seemed  plausible,  but  we  think  it  has  no  place  in  the 
present  inquiry.  It  was  not  set  forth  in  the  bill  as  a  breach  of  trust ;  it  was 
advanced  only  in  argument,  and  that  argument  was  founded  upon  a  statement 
in  the  defendants,  answer,  of  the  studies  pursued  at  the  Academy.  But  as  a 
distinct  complaint  of  a  breach  of  trust,  it  has  not  been  made  in  the  bill,  nor 
have  the  defendants  had  opportunity  to  answer  to  it.  The  point  might  have 
some  influence  as  an  argument  upon  the  other  question  which  is  afterward  to 
be  considered,  if  it  could  be  shown  that  such  a  school  as  the  present  is,  was 
not  the  grammar  school  contemplated  by  the  donor.  For  instance  if  it  was 
shown  aliunde,  that  the  school  was  intended  exclusively  for  the  inhabitants  of 
Hadley,  it  might  perhaps  be  argued  that  the  inhabitants  had  no  need  of  an 
institution  of  so  high  a  character,  and  therefore,  that  such  an  institution  was 
not  intended'.  But  till  that  question  is  settled,  the  argument  bears  with  the 
same  force  the  other  way.  If  the  donors, 'by  a  grammar  school,  contem- 


plated  an  institution  of  higher  chanicter  than  is  ordinarily  required  for  the 
children  of  a  single  town,  then  it  could  not  be  intended  by  the  donors,  that 
the  benefits  of  such  a  school  should  be  confined  to  the  children  of  the  inhab- 
itants of  Hadley.  It  can  tlferefore  have  no  weight,  as  an  argument  on  that 
question. 

But  the  real  question  raised  and  discussed  in  the  present  case  is  whether 
the  funds  placed  under  the  control  of  the  defendants,  for  the  support  of  a 
school,  are  to  be  so  administered,  as  to  confine  the  benefit  of  them  exclusively 
to  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Hadley. 

By  the  terms  of  the  act  of  incorporation  St.  1815,  104,  12,  all  lands  and 
moneys  given  to  the  committee  for  the  use  of  said  school,  shall  be  confirmed 
to  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  and  their  successors  in  said  trust  for- 
ever, for  the  uses  designated  by  the  donors.  The  same  trusts  therefore,  under 
which  the  committee  held  the  funds,  prior  to  the  act  of  incorporation,  are 
those  under  which  the  defendants  as  Trustees  of  the  academy  are  still  to  hold 
them  and  appropriate  them,  so  that  the  question  in  this  respect  is  the  same 
as  if  there  had  been  no  act  of  incorporation. 

Two  sources  of  evidence  are  relied  upon  by  the  defendants,  to  show  that 
they  have  heretofore  rightly  administered  these  funds,  as  a  trust  for  a  public 
school,  not  confining  the  benefits  of  them  to  the  town  of  Hadley,  but  com- 
municating them  equally  to  the  youth  of  other  towns  who  may  desire  the 
benefits  of  them. 

1.  The  terms  under  which  the  grants  were  originally  made,  the  will  of 
Edward  Hopkins  and  the  appointment  made  under  it  by  his  surviving  execu- 
tors Davenport  and  Goodwin. 

2.  Certain  judicial  proceedings,  which  are  alleged  to  have   taken  place 
before  the  county  court  for  the  county  of  Hampshire,  and  before  the  Presi- 
dent and  Council  of  New  England,  about  the  year  1686,  in  which  this  very 
question  was  raised  and  determined  against  the  claim  and  pretensions  of  the 
town  of  Hadley. 

And  they  insist  that  these  grounds  are  strengthened  by  an  immemorial 
usage,  acted  upon  by  the  Trustees  of  the  school  called  the  committee  of  the 
donation  school,  and  acquiesced  in  by  the  inhabitants  of  Hadley,  not  to 
exclude  but  to  admit  pupils  from  other  towns  seeking  the  benefit  of  the  school 
in  fitting  for  college. 

These  grounds  are  denied  by  the  plaintiffs,  who  insist  that  the  construction 
of  the  original  instruments  by  which  the  donation  was  made,  will  lead  to  a 
contrary  conclusion;  that  the  judicial  proceedings  were  not  well  proved,  or 
if  they  were,  that  the  court  had  no  jurisdiction;  and  that  there  has  been  no 
usage  to  admit  pupils  from  other  towns  so  general  or  so  notorious,  as  to 
raise  an  implication  that  it  was  acquiesced  in  by  the  inhabitants  of  Hadley. 

To  trace  the  foundation  of  this  school,  we  are  carried  back  through  an 
interval  of  nearly  two  centuries.  The  clause  in  the  will  of  Edward  Hopkins 
the  liberal  benefactor  of  New  England,  recited  in  the  bill  and  admitted  in  the 
answer  is  to  this  effect,  "  And  the  residue  of  my  estate  there,"  &c.  (as  before, 
p.  241.) 

This  is  a  devise  to  the  Trustees,  by  which  the  real  and  personal  property 


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became  vested  in  them,  on  the  trusts  designated,  indicating  certain  objects 
to  be  accomplished  and  intrusting  them  with  full  power  to  specify  those  objects 
and  execute  the  purposes  intended  by  the  will,  according  to  their  discretion 
and  their  views  of  his  known  wishes,  and  his  true  intent  and  purpose."  In 
1664,  Davenport  and  Goodwin,  the  two  surviving  Trustees,  proceeded  to 
execute  the  trust  and  power  reposed  in  them  by  an  appointment  of  the  partic- 
ular uses  of  this  property  by  an  instrument  under  their  hands  and  seals  (vid. 
ante.  p.  241,  244). 

Had  this  instrument  contained  only  that  provision,  which  is  extracted  and 
set  forth  in  the  bill,  directing  that  the  property  shall  be  equally  divided 
between  New  Haven  and  Hadley,  to  be  in  each  of  those  towns  managed  and 
improved  towards  the  erecting  of  a  grammar  school  in  each  of  those  towns, 
taking  the  views  that  we  have  derived  from  later  experiences,  by  which  we 
consider  towns,  in  all  respects,  as  strict  corporations,  there  would  have  been 
ground  for  contending  that  the  gift  and  appointment  was  to  the  town  of 
Hadley,  in  its  corporate  capacity.  But  in  that  case,  it  would  have  been  open 
to  contend,  that  the  legal  estate  was  to  Hadley,  as  a  corporation  capable  of 
taking  and  holding  property  for  the  use  of  a  school.  But  the  subsequent 
provision,  appointing  Trustees  and  vesting  the  legal  estate  in  them,  expressly 
negatives  this  hypothesis,  and  shows  that  the  legal  estate  was  not  vested  in 
the  town,  nor  does  it  appear  that  the  town  have  claimed  to  be  the  holders  of 
the  legal  estate,  since  the  attempt  to  take  the  management  of  it  into  their 
own  hands  in  1686.  Besides  at  the  period  of  these  conveyances,  towns  in 
Massachusetts  were  not  considered  so  fully  corporations  as  they  have  since 
been,  but  their  corporate  powers  have  been  increased  from  time  to  time  by 
particular  legislative  enactments.  But  it  is  believed,  that  the  name  by  which 
a  township  or  settlement  was  designated,  was  as  often  used  to  express  the 
idea  of  place,  as  to  describe  the  body  of  inhabitants  or  settlers,  in  their 
.municipal  corporate  capacity.  When  therefore  the  phraseology  is,  that  the 
money  shall  be  equally  divided  between  Hadley  and  New  Haven,  and  then  in 
the  same  instrument  Trustees  are  appointed  to  hold  and  manage  it,  it  seems 
to  import  nothing  more  than  to  direct  that  it  shall  be  apportioned  equally  to 
the  institutions  to  be  established  at  the  two  places  respectively.  We  must 
therefore  resort  to  other  considerations  to  determine  the  question  in 
controversy. 

In  doing  this,  it  is  necessary  to  look  carefully  at  both  instruments,  the 
devise  to  the  Trustees,  and  the  appointment  and  settlement  by  them,  and  to 
consider  both  in  reference  to  the  state  and  condition  of  the  colony  at  that 
time.  The  purpose  of  the  pious  donor  was,  as  he  modestly  expressed  it  "to 
give  some  encouragement,  in  these  foreign  plantations,  for  the  breeding  up 
of  hopeful  youth  in  a  way  of  learning,  both  at  the  grammar  school  and 
college,  for  the  public  service  of  the  country  in  future  times."  This  looks 
not  only  to  great  and  useful  objects,  but  to  public  objects.  The  establish- 
ment of  the  grammar  school  is  coupled  immediately  with  that  of  the  college, 
which  although  it  must  be  established  in  some  place,  and  so  is  local  in  its 
existence,  yet  is  necessarily  public  and  general  in  its  purposes.  The  end 
contemplated  was  the  public  service  of  the  country  in  future  times.  It  was 


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to  breed  up  hopeful  youth  in  a  way  of  learning.  These  expressions  seem 
inconsistent  with  the  purpose  of  establishing  a  local  school  for  teaching  (the 
humblest  rudiments  of  education  to  the  children  of  both  sexes,  who  usually 
resort  to  such  a  school.  If  it  be  said  that  these  expressions  are  adapted  to 
that  part  of  the  provision,  which  points  to  the  encouragement  to  be  given  to 
the  college,  the  answer  is  obvious,  that  both  are  included  in  precisely  the 
same  terms.  It  seems  much  more  like  having  regard  to  a  course  of  liberal 
education  and  the  fitting  of  men  with  that  degree  of  learning  which  might 
qualify  them  for  public  service  as  professional  men  especially  for  the  service 
of  the  church.  In  that  view  the  two  leading  objects  are  perfectly  consistent 
and  calculated  to  advance  each  other,  supposing  a  grammar  school  designs 
to  fit  young  men  for  college,  and  the  college  to  enable  them  to  complete  a 
liberal  education,  preparatory  to  public  or  professional  life.  He  afterwards 
with  much  solemnity  and  earnestness^  speaks  of  the  aforesaid  public  ends. 
This  looks  like  a  design  to  found  a  local  school,  confined  in  its  benefits  to  the 
children  of  a  single  settlement. 

And  we  are  of  opinion,  that  the  original  trustees  of  Mr.  Hopkins,  who  were 
specially  charged  with  the  execution  of  the  liberal  and  beneficent  designs  of 
the  donor,  understood  it  in  the  same  way,  by  the  instrument  which  they 
executed. 

After  performing  that  duty  which  consisted  in  providing  for  the  college, 
they  proceed  to  execute  their  powers  in  regard  to  the  school.  They  direct 
the  property  to  be  divided  equally  between  the  towns  of  New,  Haven  and 
Hartley,  to  be  in  each  of  the  towns  managed  and  improved  towards  maintain- 
ing a  grammar  school  in  each  of  them,  and  they  direct  in  whose  hands  the 
management  thereof  shall  be,  and  as  to  Hadley  this  management  is  committed 
to  four  trustees  specially  named,  with  power  to  appoint  successors  and  fill 
vacancies,  and  their  powers  are  to  extend  both  to  "  the  ordering  of  said 
estate,  and  carrying  on  the  work  wherein  it  is  to  be  employed  "  with  full 
power  to  pursue  and  put  in  execution  this  pious  end  and  intendment  of  the 
worthy  donor,  that  is,  to  be  trustees  of  the  estate,  and  directors  or  managers 
for  the  establishment,  maintenance  and  regulation  of  the  school.  This  object 
was  further  secured,  as  far  as  it  was  in  their  power  to  secure  it,  by  reserving 
to  themselves,  whilst  they  lived,  the  full  power  of  a  negative  vote,  for  the 
hindering  of  anything  that  might  cross  that  end.  In  this  appointment,  the 
trustees  of  Mr.  Hopkins  seem  to  have  done  little  more  in  the  execution  of 
their  powers,  than  to  apportion  the  amount  of  property  to  be  appropriated 
to  this  school,  fix  the  place  where  it  should  be  established,  designate  the 
persons  who  should  hold  the  property  and  manage  the  school,  and  provide 
for  perpetuating  them.  But  as  to  the  great  object  to  be  kept  in  vieAv,  in 
administering  this  trust,  they  referred  to  the  objects  expressed  by  the  donor. 
In  considering  those  objects,  we  can  perceive  nothing  which  looks  like  a 
restraint  upon  the  permanent  board  of  trustees,  obliging  them  to  consider 
the  trust  as  intended  exclusively  for  the  benefit  of  the  inhabitants  of  Hadley. 
It  is  incumbent  on  the  plaintiffs  to  show  that  they  are  exclusively  entitled  to 
the  benefits  of  this  trust,  and  if  that  is  not  shown,  they  must  fail  in  estab- 
lishing tliis  claim.  There  is  nothing,  either  in  the  original  will,  or  in  the 


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appointment  under  it,  to  indicate  that  such  an  exclusive  right  was  intended ; 
but  on  the  contrary,  we  think  it  more  consistent  with  the  avowed  intention 
of  the  testator,  to  conclude  that  it  was  designed  for  the  encouragement  of  all 
those,  in  that  newly  settled  part  of  the  country,  who  were  desirous  of  avail, 
ing  themselves  of  the  benefit  of  a  grammar  school,  to  qualify  them  for  the 
university.  The  mere  circumstance  of  being  fixed  in  Hadley,  has  no  tendency 
to  show,  that  any  other  exclusive  or  peculiar  benefit  was  intended  than  that 
which  arises  incidentally  to  any  place,  from  having  a  public  school  in  its 
immediate  vicinity. 

Nor  can  we  perceive  that  the  trusts  and  purposes  of  this  appointment  are 
varied  by  the  proposal  subsequently  made  to  the  town  by  Mr.  Goodwin,  one 
of  the  surviving  trustees,  in  1669,  to  which  the  town  acceded. 

Whether  the  property  had  been  actually  placed  in  the  possession  or  under 
the  control  of  the  trustees  named  in  the  deed  of  appointment,  does  not  dis- 
tinctly appear ;  nor  does  it  appear  what  occasion  there  was  for  any  new 
arrangement.  One  purpose,  perhaps,  may  be  safely  conjectured,  that  of 
connecting  two  or  three  other  donations,  made  for  the  support  of  a  school, 
and  one  by  the  town  itself,  with  that  of  Mr.  Hopkins,  so  as  to  place  the 
whole  under  one  administration  and  appropriate  the  whole  to  one  object. 
The  proposal  made  by  Mr.  Goodwin  was  substantially  this  :  that  he  should 
appoint  three  persons,  to  be  submitted  to  the  town  and  be  approved  by 
them,  that  the  town  should  appoint  two,  and  that  these  five,  with  himself 
while  he  lived,  should  have  the  sole  disposal,  and  management  of  the  estate 
in  all  respects,  for  the  end  to  which  it  was  bequeathed;  and  the  same  five 
persons,  with  himself  whilst  he  lived,  were  to  have  the  sole  management  of 
all  other  estate  given  by  any  donor,  or  which  might  be  given  while  they 
survived,  to  the  town  of  Hadley,  for  the  promotion  of  literature  or  learning. 
These  trusnees  were  appointed  for  their  lives,  with  power  to  perpetuate  the 
board  by  filling  their  own  vacancies.  And  Mr.  Goodwin  modestly  requested 
that  it  might  be  called  the  Hopkins  school.  This  proposal  being  submitted 
to  the  to\vn,  they  voted  to  send  to  Mr.  Goodwin  to  know  the  persons  he 
would  make  choice  of,  and  he  names  three,  two  of  whom  appear  to  be  the 
same,  who  had  been  named  in  the  deed  of  appointment.  These  are  approved 
by  the  town,  who  elect  two  on  their  part  conformably  to  the  proposal,  one 
of  whom,  Mr.  Tilton,  appears  to  be  the  same  with  one  named  in  the  deed  of 
appointment.  These  acts,  done  in  pursuance  of  Mr.  Goodwin's  proposal 
seem  to  be  a  distinct  acquiescence  and  concurrence  in  that  proposal.  But 
some  reliance  and  indeed  the  principal  reliance  seems  to  be  placed  by  the 
plaintiffs,  upon  the  terms  of  the  vote  passed  on  that  occasion  by  the  town. 
It  was  in  substance  that  the  committee  thus  chosen  should  jointly  and 
together  have  the  ordering  and  full  disposal  of  the  estate  given  by  Mr. 
Davenport  and  Mr.  Goodwin  as  trustees  of  Mr.  Hopkins,  to  the  town  of  Hadley, 
or  any  other  estate  or  estates  that  were  or  might  be  given  either  by  the  town 
itself,  or  any  other  donor  or  donors,  for  the  use,  benefit  and  maintenance  and 
promoting  a  grammar  school,  to  and  for  the  use  and  in  the  town  of  Hadley. 

They  also  state,  that  the  trustees  shall  supply  vacancies,  in  their  own  body, 
by  the  choice  of  other  persons,  so  that  they  be  known,  discreet,  pious,  faith- 


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ful  persons,  and  they  direct  two  persons  named  to  present  the  premises  to 
the  court  to  be  recorded. 

It  appears  to  us,  that  these  proceedings  did  not  in  any  degree  change  the 
nature  of  the  trusts  upon  which  the  property  was  to  be  held ;  it  merely 
changed,  in  a  slight  degree,  the  organization  of  the  board  of  trustees,  so  as 
to  give  the  town  an  effectual  agency  in  its  constitution,  by  which  they  had 
the  exclusive  nomination  and  appointment  of  two,  and  a  negative  upon  Mr. 
Goodwin's  nomination  of  the  other  three.  It  substantially  placed  the  control 
of  the  whole  under  the  agency  of  the  appointees  of  the  town.  The  town 
might,  therefore,  well  consent  that  their  own  and  the  other  small  donations 
for  the  like  object,  should  be  under  the  same  government. 

They  chose  to  speak  of  the  property  given  by  Mr.  Goodwin  and  Mr.  Daven- 
port, under  Mr.  Hopkins's  will,  as  property  given  to  the  town  of  Hadley.  If 
they  meant  given  to  the  town  in  its  corporate  capacity,  we  have  already 
shown  that  it  was  not  so  given,  but-  to  trustees  to  establish  a  school  in 
Hadley.  And  the  other  clause,  to  and  for  the  use  of  the  town,  of  Hadley,  is  so 
introduced,  as  to  leave  it  doubtful,  whether  it  was  intended  to  intimate  their 
views  of  the  purpose,  to  which  the  funds  were  to  be  appropriated,  or  to  be 
descriptive  of  the  other  estate,  which  might  be  given  by  the  town  itself,  or 
by  any  other  donor.  But  what  renders  it  quite  certain  that  it  was  not 
intended  to  declare  any  other  or  different  trust,  from  that  already  declared  by 
Goodwin  and  Davenport,  is  this ;  that  Mr.  Goodwin's  proposal  was,  that  the 
committee  should  hold  the  property,  in  all  respects,  for  the  end  to  which  it 
was  bequeathed  by  Mr.  Hopkins ;  and  that  the  town  intended  to  accede  to 
this  proposal,  and  not  to  change  or  qualify  it,  or  make  a  new  one,  is  manifest 
from  this,  that  they  did  not  submit  this  vote  of  theirs  to  Mr.  Goodwin,  for  his 
concurrence,  as  they  would,  if  they  had  proposed  a  change  or  modification  of 
his  proposal ;  but  on  the  contrary,  they  directed  the  proceedings  to  be  pre- 
sented to  the  court,  probably  the  county  court,  to  be  recorded,  as  a  complete 
and  settled  arrangement.  Besides,  when  it  is  considered  that  how  peculiarly 
a  grammar  school,  permanehtly  fixed  in  any  town,  enures  practically  to  the 
use  of  such  town,  and  when  by  this  arrangement  the  school  was  permanently 
established  in  Hadley,  and  was  placed  under  the  control  and  management  of 
a  board  of  trustees,  in  the  appointment  of  whom  the  town  had  a  direct  partic- 
ipation, and  who,  by  the  mode  of  perpetuation,  might  generally  be  expected 
to  be  inhabitants  of  that  town,  it  was  not  very  wTide  from  the  truth  to 
describe  it  as  a  school  to  be  for  the  use  of,  as  well  as  established  in  the  town 
of  Hadley.  But  there  are  no  words  of  exclusion  or  limitation  and  no  intima- 
tion that  the  benelicial  use  was  to  be  confined  exclusively  to  the  inhabitants 
of  Hadley.  We  think,  therefore,  that  there  is  nothing  in  these  proceedings, 
which  was  intended  to  vary,  or,  if  so  intended,  which  could  legally  vary  the 
trusts,  upon  which  the  property  in  question  was  conveyed  to,  and  vested  in 
the  committee  thus  appointed. 

In  regard  to  the  other  donations  set  forth  in  the  bill,  it  appears  to  us  that 
they  clearly  follow  the  principal  one  derived  from  Hopkins. 

The  devises  by  Barnard  and  Ward  were  both  made  in  1(564,  the  same  year 
that  the  deed  of  appointment  was  made  by  the  trustees  of  Hopkins  and  the 

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object  being  the  same,  the  establishment  of  a  grammar  school,  the  intent  to 
give  it  the  same  distinction  might  be  presumed.  But  it  does  not  stand  on 
this  presumption. 

By  the  vote  of  the  town  in  1669,  it  was  decided  by  the  town,  that  all  the 
estate  which  had  been  given,  or  might  be  given  for  the  same  purpose,  should 
be  held  and  managed  by  the  same  committee ;  which  is  in  effect  a  declaration, 
that  they  shall  be  held  upon  the  same  trusts,  and  appropriated  to  the  same 
purposes.  And  even  if  it  were  a  question  of  legal  title,  it  is  to  be  recollected 
that  in  transactions  of  this  antiquity,  a  conveyance  by  vote,  by  a  corporation, 
is  held  sufficient  to  convey  an  estate,  and  pass  the  fee.  A  fortiori,  is  it  good 
as  the  manifestation  of  a  trust. 

That  portion  of  this  estate  appropriated  by  the  town  itself,  was  thus  done 
in  1666,  before  the  above  agreement.  It  was  not  strictly  a  grant,  because 
there  was  no  grantee.  It  was  rather  an  appropriation,  then  made,  and  vested 
in  the  committee  by  the  subsequent  vote  of  1669,  subject  to  the  same  trust. 
So  much  are  charities  of  this  sort  favored,  that  when  the  grantee  in  trust  for 
education,  is  not  in  esse,  as  in  the  case  of  a  grant  to  a  body  not  yet  incor- 
porated, but  afterwards  a  corporation  or  board  of  trustees  is  created,  chan- 
cery will  uphold  the  trust  and  carry  the  object  into  effect,  by  directing  the 
necessary  conveyances,  and  settling  the  proper  trusts. 

Here  the  town  did  voluntarily  and  by  its  own  act,  all  that  was  necessary  to 
give  the  grant  effect,  by  designating  the  grantees  and  vesting  the  estate  in 
them  by  vote. 

The  grant  of  Henry  Clark  was  after  the  vote  of  1669,  to  wit,  in  1675.  But 
it  is  to  be  observed  that,  although  by  the  terms  of  Henry  Clark, s  will,  he 
gives  the  estate  to  the  town  of  Hadley,  yet  it  is  under  this  limitation ;  com- 
mitting the  same  to  the  care,  disposing  and  ordering  of  Lieut.  Samuel  Smith, 
etc.  (naming  the  Hopkins  committee)  to  be  by  them  disposed  of,  to  Hopkins 
school,  for  Hadley,  with  an  express  condition,  that  if  they  are  disturbed  in 
their  committeeship,  it  shall  be  otherwise  disposed  of,  as  they  shall  see  meet 
for  the  good  of  the  town. 

It  might  be  difficult  to  put  a  legal  construction  upon  this  devise,  so  as  to 
determine  whether  the  fee  vested  in  the  committee  or  the  towrn.  But  as 
already  shown,  that  question  is  not  now  before  the  Court.  One  thing  is 
perfectly  clear,  that  is,  that  the  trust  of  this  devise  was  for  Hopkins  School, 
whatever  were  the  purposes  of  that  school,  the  same  were  those  of  this  gift. 
It  must  clearly,  therefore,  follow  the  same  trusts,  which  had  been  already 
declared  as  those  upon  which  this  school  was  founded  by  Hopkins,  and  those 
who  were  entrusted  by  him  with  the  power  of  giving  a  specific  form  to  his 
declared  purpose  of  promoting  a  public  grammar  school. 

The  second  principal  ground  on  which  the  respondents  rely,  to  show  that 
these  funds  were  not  held  exclusively  for  the  benefit  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Hadley,  is,  the  acts  and  adjudication  of  the  county  court  and  of  the  president 
and  council  of  his  Majesty, s  territory  and  dominion  of  New  England,  which 
are  set  out  in  the  answer. 

Two  objections  are  taken  to  these  proceedings,  by  the  plaintiffs  in  this 
case;  one  is.  that  thev  are  not  dulv  authenticated;  and  the  other  is,  that 


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neither  the  county  court  nor  the  president  and  council,  had  any  jurisdiction 
of  the  subject  matter,  and  that  their  proceedings,  therefore,  ought  not  to  be 
considered  as  having  any  legal  eft'ect.  We  have  not  thought  it  necessary  to 
examine  either  of  these  questions  very  strictly,  for  reasons  which  will  be 
sufficiently  manifest.  These  transactions  connect  themselves  with  one  of 
the  most  remarkable  periods  in  the  history  of  Massachusetts.  The  proceed- 
ings, so  far  as  we  have  evidence  of  them, were  before  the  president  and  council 
of  New  England,  in  the  autumn  of  1686,  very  shortly  before  the  arrival  of 
Governor  Andros.  We  have  a  certiticate  from  the  secretary, s  office  stating 
that  there  are  no  records  of  the  proceedings  of  the  council  from  May,  1686  to 
1689.  It  will  not  be  difficult  for  those  who  are  conversant  with  the  history 
of  that  disturbed  period,  to  account  for  the  entire  absence  of  these  records. 
The  commission  of  Governor  Dudley  as  first  president,  was  received  on  the 
15th  of  May,  1686,  and  he  was  superseded  by  the  arrival  of  Sir  Edmund 
Andros  in  December  of  the  same  year.  By  him  and  his  council  all  the  affairs 
of  the  colony  were  managed  until  1689,  when  he  was  arrested,  and  forcibly 
put  out  of  the  government.  It  was  the  manifest  policy  of  those  who  thus 
forcibly  superseded  him,  and  who  were  in  truth  the  champions  of  the  char- 
tered rights  of  the  colonies,  to  leave  as  few  traces  as  possible,  of  the  arbi- 
trary and,  as  they  believed,  tyrannical  proceedings  of  this  president  and  his 
council.  Still  it  was  a  government  de  facto,  and  as  such,  acts  done  within  its 
jurisdiction  would  probably  be  binding.  From  the  imperfect  view  which 
alone  can  now  be  obtained  of  those  proceedings,  it  cannot  be  certainly  deter- 
mined how  the  case  of  this  school  was  brought  before  the  president  and 
council.  The  county  court,  under  the  colonial  government,  had  an  extensive 
and,  perhaps,  not  very  strictly  defined  jurisdiction.  Ancient  charters,  etc., 
91,  And  it  is  expressly  ordained  that  all  persons  "  betrusted  to  receive  or 
improve  "  any  gift  or  legacy  "  given  and  bequeathed  to  the  college,  schools 
of  learning  or  any  other  public  use,  shall  be  liable  from  time  to  time  to  give 
account  of  their  disposal  and  management  thereof  to  the  county  court  of  that 
shire  where  they  dwell  and  where  such  estate  shall  be,  and  to  appoint  feoffees 
of  trust  to  settle  and  manage  the  same  according  to  the  wills  of  the  donors.'' 
Ancient  charters  etc.,  52. 

Under  the  charter,  the  general  court  was  deemed  and  declared  to  be  the 
chief  civil  power  in  this  commonwealth,  with  authority  to  act  in  all  affairs 
according  to  such  power,  both  in  matters  of  council,  making  of  laws,  and 
matters  of  judicature.  Ancient  Charters,  etc.,  88. 

By  an  ordinance  in  1654,  in  consequence  of  the  general  court  being  so  much 
oppressed  with  the  weight  of  business,  it  was  ordered  that  causes  properly 
cognizable  by  the  county  court,  should  not  be  transferred  to  the  general 
court,  but  that  difficult  cases  might  be  presented  by  inferior  courts  for  its 
opinion.  Ancient  Charters,  etc.,  92. 

After  the  dissolution  of  the  Colony  Charter  in  1685,  and  the  establishment 
of  the  royal  government,  it  was  provided  in  the  King's  commission,  first  to 
Dudley  and  afterwards  to  Andros,  which  commissions,  together  with  the 
royal  instructions  constituted  the  basis  of  that  government,  that  all  former 
ordinances  should  remain  in  force,  and  that  the  president  and  council  should 


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have  and  exercise  the  same  powers  which  had  formerly  been  exercised  by 
the  government  under  the  colony  charter.  From  this  general  view,  it  would 
seem  that  the  jurisdiction  both  of  the  county  court  and  of  the  president  and 
council,  was  amply  sufficient  to  embrace  a  case  like  this. 

It  appears  that  the  county  court  did  in  fact,  exercise  a  superintending 
authority  over  cases  of  this  kind,  because  there  is  a  record  showing  that  as 
early  as  1682  the  committee  of  the  Hopkins  school  presented  a  report  of  their 
proceedings  to  the  county  court,  which  was  accepted  and  allowed.  The  court 
also  take  notice  who  are  trustees,  and  confirm  and  approve  of  them  and  desire 
and  expect  their  further  management  in  carrying  on  the  affairs  of  said  school, 
which  the  court  will  be  always  ready  to  promote  and  encourage  as  need  may 
require. 

It  is  also  to  be  recollected  that  upon  the  final  adjustment  of  this  trust,  by 
the  proposal  of  Mr.  Goodwin  and  the  votes  of  the  town  in  10(59,  the  town 
ordered  the  proceedings  to  pe  presented  to  the  county  to  be  recorded,  thereby 
recognizing  their  jurisdiction  of  trusts  of  this  kind  and  confirming  the  con- 
clusion that  it  was  a  public  trust.  But  the  judicial  proceedings  relied  upon, 
commenced  at  a  later  period.  It  appears  that  in  August  1(586, the  town  of  Hadley 
passed  a  vote  to  take  into  their  own  hands  to  manage,  order  and  dispose  to 
the  use  of  a  school,  etc.,  all  estates  bequeathed  etc.,  as  the  legacies  of  Ward, 
Barnard  and  Clark.  It  is  to  he  remarked,  that  by  this  vote,  they  did  not 
seem  to  claim  the  property  of  Hopkins,  except  in  general  terms.  In  conse- 
quence of  this  vote  in  September  of  the  same  year,  proceedings  were  com- 
menced in  the  county  court  at  Springfield,  by  the  committee,  who  presented 
the  declining  state  of  the  school  in  Hadley, for  that  some  of  Hadley  do  disturb 
or  obstruct  the  management  of  the  estate  of  said  school.  Upon  this  the 
court  passed  an  order  that  all  the  gifts  to  that  object  should  be  improved  by 
that  committee. 

It  does  not  appear  how  proceedings  were  instituted  before  the  president 
and  council,  whether  by  reference  from  the  county  court,  or  by  an  original 
application.  A  decision,  however,  seems  to  have  been  made,  December  6, 
1686,  which  was  afterwards  laid  before  the  county  court  and  by  that  court 
fully  adopted  and  affirmed.  But  we  do  not  think  it  necessary  to  refer  to  these. 
proceedings  at  large.  We  have  looked  into  them  only  so  far  as  to  see  that 
they  do  not  militate  against  the  opinions  which  we  have  formed  upon  the 
effect  of  the  original  grants  and  the  trusts  upon  which  they  were  made.  On 
the  contrary,  the  effect  of  the  decisions,  both  of  the  county  court  and  of  the 
president  and  council,  was,  that  the  committee  be  and  remain  feoffees  of  the 
school,  judging  the  particular  gifts  in  that  town  a  good  foundation  for  a 
grammar  school,  both  for  themselves  and  for  the  whole  county,  and  that  a 
grammar  school  can  be  no  otherwise  interpreted,  but  to  be  a  school  holden 
by  a  master  capable  to  instruct  children  and  fit  them  for  the  university.  This, 
adjudication  was  adopted  and  measures  taken  to  carry  it  into  effect  by  the 
county  court.  We  should  not  be  surprised  to  find,  if  the  early  manuscript 
could  be  obtained,  that  the  word  written  county  was  country,  it  being  more 
consonant  with  the  true  nature  of  the  trust,  contemplated  by  Hopkins,  and 
because  the  term  "  country  "  was  then  generally  adopted  to  express  the  public 


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or  the  whole  community.  Hut  in  either  form  it  negatives  the  claim  of  the  town 
of  Hartley  to  the  exclusive  benefit  of  these  funds.  Had  these  adjudications 
been  the  other  way,  or  had  the  claim  of  the  respondents  rested  solely  upon  them 
it  would  have  been  necessary  to  examine  with  a  more  rigid  scrutiny,  both  the 
authority  of  the  documents  in  which  these  proceedings  are  now  found,  and 
the  jurisdiction  of  the  courts  over  the  subject  matter,  and  over  the  particular 
question  of  the  trusts,  on  which  the  donations  were  made,  all  these  points 
being  controlled  by  the  plaintiffs.  But  as  we  have  already  stated  we  have  only 
looked  into  them  so  far,  as  to  see  that  they  do  not  militate  against  the  decis- 
ion to  which  we  have  now  come  upon  other  grounds.  As  the  case  of  the 
defendants  does  not  rest  solely  or  principally  upon  those  adjudications,  as 
their  case  is  established  independently  of  them,  it  would  not  vary  the  result 
if  the  objections  made  to  their  authority  and  sufficiency  by  the  plaintiffs  should 
be  fully  sustained. 

3.  Tbe  last  ground  upon  which  the  defendants  rely,  is  the  usage  and  prac- 
tice of  the  trustees  or  donation  committee  from  1686  to  the  present  time. 

Usage  in  ancient  transactions  is  a  good  contemporaneous  construction  of  a 
doubtful  grant. 

In  looking  at  the  evidence  adduced  upon  this  point,  nothing  is  found  in  the 
records  of  the  trustees  to  show  whether  they  did  or  did  not  confine  the  bene- 
fits of  this  grammar  school  to  children  of  the  inhabitants  of  Haclley.  The 
evidence,  therefore,  must  rest  upon  living  memory,  which  extends  back  fifty 
or  sixty  years ;  and  by  this  it  appears  most  satisfactorily,  that  in  point  of 
fact,  although  practically  it  has  enured  principally  to  the  use  of  the  inhab- 
itants, yet  it  has  not  been  confined  to  them,  but  many  boys  from  other  towns 
have  been  fitted  for  college  there ;  and  those  who  have  been  longest  conver- 
sant with  the  actual  management  of  the  school  as  trustees  testify  that  they 
have  always  considered  it  as  a  school  the  benefits  of  which  have  not  been 
confined,  and  of  right  were  not  to  be  confined,  exclusively  to  children  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Iladley. 

Pereaps  some  of  the  minor  questions  in  this  case  may  have  been  passed 
over  without  notice.  We  have  endeavored  to  consider  the  general  question 
upon  its  merits,  and  upon  the  broadest  principles;  and  upon  the  whole,  are  of 
the  opinion  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Hadley  are  not  exclusively 
entitled  to  the  benefits  of  these  ancient  donations,  that  the  defendants  in  their 
mode  of  administering  them,  and  extending  the  benefit  of  them  to  children 
of  other  towns,  have  not  been  guilty  of  the  breach  of  trust  charged  in  the 
bill,  and  therefore,  that  the  suit  must  be  dismissed. 

This  decision  was  received  with  acquiescence.  The  good  work  of 
the  Academy  went  on  for  many  years  with  great  prosperity,  Mean- 
while changes  were  taking  place  and  the  Academy,  as  it  had  existed 
here  and  elsewhere,  was  losing  its  importance  in  general  estimation. 
The  larger  towns  were  supporting  High  schools  for  themselves,  and 
large  schools  liberally  endowed,  like  Williston  Seminary  at  Easthamp- 
ton,  became  the  resort  of  young  men  fitting  for  college,  so  that  the 
patronage  of  Hopkins  Academy  was  coming  more  and  more  to  be 


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derived  from  within  the  town.  Fewer  and  fewer  pupils  came  from 
abroad,  so  that  the  question  was  becoming  importunate  whether  the 
Academy  Fund  could  not  be  made  more  largely  beneficial  to  the 
people  of  the  town.  Mingled  with  this  there  was  something  of  the 
feeling  which  had  shown  itself  in  former  years,  that  the  town  as  such 
had  rights  in  the  fund,  not  so  fully  enjoyed  as  they  might  and  should 
be. 

Hence  the  question  came  up  for  consideration.  Communications 
were  exchanged  between  the  town  and  the  trustees  of  the  academy 
extending  over  a  period  of  more  than  ten  years.  The  matter  was 
discussed  in  town  meetings  and  meetings  of  the  trustees,  until,  at 
length,  these  negotiations  issued  in  the  existing  arrangement  which 
has  continued  nearly  twenty-five  years  with  a  good  measure  of  satis- 
faction to  all  concerned. 

The  account  of  these  doings  is  given  in  the  succeeding  chapter. 


CHAPTER  XI. 


DOINGS  OF   THE   TOWN   AND   THE   TRUSTEES   IN   CON- 
FERENCE, WITH  REFERENCE  TO  MAKING  THE 
SCHOOL  FREE  TO  HADLEY. 

As  has  been  noted  the  decision  of  the  Supreme  Judicial  Court  was 
received  with  acquiescence.  Agitation  ceased  and  all  went  on  with 
quiet  prosperity,  though  with  steadily  decreasing  numbers,  until  the  year 
1851.  About  this  time  a  change  began  in  the  system  of  public  school 
instruction.  Graded  schools  were  coming  to  take  the  place  of  the 
district  school  as  it  had  been  hitherto.  The  subject  was  brought 
prominently  to  notice  in  the  report  of  the  Secretary  of  the  State 
Board  of  Education.  The  school  committee  of  the  town  in  their 
annual  report  that  year  suggested  as  possible  some  change  in  the 
schools  of  the  town,  looking  to  their  partial  gradation,  and  outlining 
a  plan  for  such  a  work.  It  was  urged  that  it  was  a  good  time  to 
take  the  first  steps  in  this  direction.  A  committee  of  inquiry  was 
recommended  to  give  thought  to  this  matter  and  report  at  a  future 
meeting.  A  committee  of  three  was  chosen  "  to  examine  and  print 
the  report  of  the  School  Committee  if  they  think  proper,  and  report  at 
some  future  meeting."  Samuel  Nash,  Esq.,  Dr.  F.  Bonney  and  P.  S. 
Williams,  Esq.  were  the  committee  chosen. 

At  this  meeting  adjourned  to  April  9,  1851,  this  committee  report- 
ed and  was  authorized  to  carry  into  effect  the  subject  of  their  report, 
viz.  :  "to  confer  with  the  gentlemen  who  have  the  care  of  the  Hop- 
kins School  Fund,  ascertain  their  views  respecting  it,  whether  in  their 
opinion  anything  could  be  done  to  make  the  advantages  arising  from 
that  fund  free  to  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  town,  and  such  other  in- 
formation as  they  may  be  able  to  obtain,  and  report  thereon." 

This  Committee  in  obeying  their  instructions  conferred  with  the 
trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  and  made  inquiry  at  such  other 
sources  as  were  open  to  them  concerning  the  fund  in  question,  its 
origin,  the  sources  whence  it  was  derived,  the  form  under  which  it 


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existed,  its  amount,  principal  and  income,  the  uses  to  which  it  was 
given,  with  something  of  its  history  from  the  beginning. 

This  committee  thus  instructed  entered  into  correspondence  with 
the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  as  follows  herewith. 

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  Feb.  3, 
1852,  the  following  paper  having  been  received  by  the  Secretary  was 
submitted  for  consideration. 

HAD  LEY,  Jan.  23,  1852. 
Rev.  John  Woodbridge,  D.  D.,   Dea.   Jacob  Smith,  Rev.  Dan  Huntington, 

Rev.  Joseph  W.   Curtis,  Moses  Porter,  Esq.,  Mr.   James   B.    Porter,  Mr. 

Dudley  Smith,  Dca.  Simeon  Dickinson,  Rev.  Warren  H.  Bcaman,  Rev.  Row- 
land Ayres  and  Dea.  C.  P.  Hitchcock,  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy. 
GENTLEMEN  : 

By  a  vote  of  the  inhabitants  of  our  town  of  Hadley,  passed  at  a  legal 
meeting  held  on  the  9th  day  of  April  last,  the  undersigned  were  appointed  :i 
Committee  to  carry  into  effect  some  recommendations  of  a  previous  Commit- 
tee in  their  report  to  the  town  on  the  aforesaid  9th  of  April. 

That  report  recommended  that  a  committee  be  appointed  and  instructed  to 
confer  with  the  gentlemen  who  have  the  care  of  the  Hopkins  School  Fund, 
ascertain  their  views  respecting  it,  whether  in  their  opinion  anything  can  be 
done  to  make  the  advantages  arising  from  the  fund  free  to  all  the  inhabitants 
of  the  town,  and  such  other  information  as  they  may  be  able  to  obtain  and 
report  thereon." 

In  pursuance  of  the  objects  of  our  appointment,  we  would  most  respect- 
fully request  of  the  Trustees  answers  to  the  following  questions,  together 
with  such  other  information  as  you  may  think  proper  to  communicate.  • 

1st.  Will  the  Trustees  consent  to  the  appropriation  of  the  funds  under 
their  care  to  the  establishment  and  maintenance  of  one  or  more  free  High 
Schools  in  Hadley,  in  connection  with  such  aid  from  the  town  as  may  be  neces- 
sary? 

2nd.  In  what  do  the  funds  under  the  care  of  the  Board  consist  and  what 
is  their  present  estimated  value? 

3rd.     What  is  the  present  annual  income  of  said  fund? 

4th.  What  part  of  the  fund  at  the  present  time  arises  from  the  bequest 
of  Edward  Hopkins  of  England? 

5th.  What  are  the  rights  and  privileges  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town 
resulting  from  this  fund? 

The  first  inquiry  is  proposed  in  the  belief  that  a  majority  of  the  legal  voters 
of  the  town  desire  to  some  extent  the  introduction  of  the  sytem  of  gradation 
of  schools,  so  highly  recommended  by  the  friends  of  education,  and  so  suc- 
cessfully adopted  in  various  places.  Answers  to  the  four  remaining  inquiries 
would  doubtless  correct  some  erroneous  opinions  and  furnish  reliable  infor- 
mation upon  a  subject  regarded  by  many  as  of  much  importance,  and  one  in 
•which  they  are  in  some  measure  interested. 
With  respect, 

SAMUEL  NASH,  ] 

FRANKLIN  BONNEY,  I  Committee. 

P.  S.  WILLIAMS,        I 


Ill 

After  some  discussion  in  reference  to  the  contents  of  the  above 
communication  it  was  voted  : 

1st.  That  the  Trustees  cannot  consistently  apply  the  funds  com- 
mitted to  their  trust  to  the  establishment  and  support  of  High  Schools. 

2d.  For  answer  to  the  second,  third,  fourth  and  fifth  questions  in 
the  above  communication,  the  committee  of  the  town  be  referred  to 
the  records  of  the  corporation,  including  the  Treasurer's  accounts, 
and  requested  themselves  to  convey  the  information  thus  obtained 
to  the  town. 

It  was  also  voted  : 

That  an  answer  to  the  communication  from  the  town  be  prepared 
by  the  President  and  Secretary,  ^accordance  with  the  above  votes, 
and  upon  its  approval  by  the  Prudential  Committee  be  handed  over 
to  the  Committee  of  the  town. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  trustees  held  March  9,  1852,  to  take  into  con- 
sideration a  second  communication  addressed  to  them  by  the  Com- 
mittee of  the  Town  in  reference  to  applying  the  funds  of  the  Academy 
to  the  promotion  of  a  High  School. 

In  reference  to  a  proposed  "  arrangement "  the  following  partic- 
ulars were  contained  in  the  above  named  communication — submitted 
to  the  consideration  of  the  Trustees  : 

"1st,  Would  you  be  willing  to  open  the  doors  of  the  Academy  to  scholars 
in  the  town  who  have  attained  to  a  certain  point  in  education,  provided  the 
town  raise  and  appropriate  some  adequate  sum  to  be  added  to  the  Hopkins 
Fund,  by  the  way  of  either  general  or  individual  tuition. 

2nd.  That  the  school  be  under  the  joint  government  of  the  Trustees  and 
a  committee  appointed  by  the  town,  which  committee  shall  be  so  far  inferior 
in  number  to  the  board  of  Trustees,  that  the  latter  may  control  in  all  matters 
of  vital  importance. 

3rd.  That  the  Trustees  be  not  disturbed  in  the  financial  management  of 
the  Fund,  there  being  merely  a  union  of  the  income  derived  from  it  with  the 
sum  raised  by  the  town. 

4th.  That  if  the  Trustees  feel  that  the  school  must  be  left  open  to  the 
public,  they  be  allowed  still  to  come  in,  as  at  present,  by  paying  a  specified 
tuition. 

Have  not  the  Trustees  a  right  to  require  a  certain  point  of  attainment  in 
scholars  from  abroad  before  they  be  admitted  to  the  advantages  of  the  school? 

In  reference  to  the  above  particulars,  contained  in  the  letter  of  the 
Town  Committee,  the  Trustees  voted  in  reference  to  the  query  under 
the  head  of  No.  1,  to  give  an  affirmative  answer  provided,  however, 
that  in  place  of  the  phraseology  "to  be  added  to  the  Hopkins  Fund  " 
be  substituted  "  be  paid  annually  to  the  Treasurer  of  Hopkins  Acad- 
emy." 

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Voted  in  reference  to  No.  2  that  inasmuch  as  the  Board  of  Trust  of  Hop- 
kins Aclademy  was  incorporated  with  express  reference  to  the  establishment 
and  support  of  an  academy  and  required  by  the  very  terms  of  their  charter 
to  adopt  and  enforce  proper  regulations  for  the  government  of  the  same,  the 
Trustees  feel  in  doubt  us  to  the  possibility,  under  our  present  charter,  of 
delegating  the  government  of  the  school  in  whole  or  in  part  to  other  hands. 

The  third  particular  was  passed  over  as  not  demanding  a  formal  notice. 

Voted  in  reference  to  No.  4,  that  notwithstanding  whatever  accommodation 
might  be  afforded  town  scholars  on  account  of  an  appropriation  from  the 
Town  to  the  income  of  the  Academy,  there  would  be  no  impropriety  in 
charging  tuition  for  scholars  from  abroad.  As  for  fixing  upon  a  standard  of 
qualifications  for  admission  to  the  Academy  the  Trustees  are  expressly 
authorized  to  do  this  by  the  2nd  Section  of  their  Charter. 

The  Secretary  was  instructed  to  transmit  a  copy  of  the  above  votes 
after  its  approval  by  the  Prudential  Committee,  to  the  Committee  of 
the  Town.  The  Committee  of  the  Town  having  then  conferred  with 
the  Trustees  and  made  such  further  enquiry  as  they  would,  made  ex- 
tended report  to  the  town  at  the  annual  meeting,  March  29th,  1<S;V2. 
This  report  gave  some  account  of  the  fund,  its  origin,  history,  dis- 
position, the  controversies  concerning  it  and  their  decision.  It 
labored  to  show  that  the  town  of  Hadley  as  such  had  rights  in  the 
fund,  from  whose  full  enjoyment  it  had  been  and  still  was  kept.  The 
only  action  recommended  for  the  town  to  take  was  to  invite  the 
trustees  to  unite  with  the'  town  in  a  petition  to  the  Legislature  to 
amend  the  charter  incorporating  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy. 
The  existing  state  of  things  was  held  to  be  an  evil,  whose  remedy 
might  be  secured  in  one  of  four  ways. 

1.  Mutual  agreement  between  the  town  and  Trustees. 

2.  By  both  parties  uniting  in  a  petition  to  the  Legislature  for  an 
amendment  to  the  Charter  so  that  the  Trustees  should   be  required  to 
make  report  yearly  of  all  their  affairs  to  the  town. 

3.  The  town  might  make  such  petition  ex-parte. 

4.  A  possible  remedy  might  be  found  in  the  Supreme  Court  as 
having  power  in  equity  to  hear  and  determine  all  suits  and   proceed- 
ings for  enforcing  and  regulating  the  execution  of  trusts. 

By  vote  this  report  was  accepted  and  ordered  to  be  printed,  and  a 
copy  supplied  to  each  family  in  the  town.  It  was  further  voted  that 
whereas  there  are  funds  under  the  care  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins 
Academy  worth  some  $15,000,  the  principal  part,  if  not  the  whole,  of 
which  was  originally  given  either  by  the  town  itself  or  individuals  in 
it,  for  the  promotion  of  learning  here.  And  whereas  no  public  report 
is  now  made  of  the  condition  and  improvement  of  the  funds  in  which 


tlu«  town  are  believed  to  have  lights  and  privileges;  therefore  voted 
that  the  committee  on  the  Academy  fund  be  a  committee  to  request 
in  behalf  of  the  town  the  aforesaid  Trustees,  to  make  an  annual  re 
port  to  the  town,  in  town  meeting,  of  the  condition,  receipts  and  dis- 
bursements of  the  fund,  together  with  any  changes  in  the  board  of 
Trustees.  Also  to  invite  the  said  Trustees  to  unite  with  the  town  in 
a  petition  to  the  legislature,  so  to  amend  the  charter  of  the  Academy 
as  to  require  such  report,  together  with  such  amendment  of  the  char- 
ter with  reference  to  applying  the  funds  to  a  free  High  School  or 
schools  as  such  Committee  and  the  Trustees  may  agree  upon.  Voted 
that  in  case  the  Trustees  assent,  then  the  aforesaid  committee  is 
authorized  and  instructed  in  behalf  of  the  town,  to  make  such  petition 
for  such  amendment  or  amendments  of  said  charter. 

Voted  that  the  Committee  on  the  Academy  Fund  take  into  consider- 
ation the  subject  of  establishing  a  free  High  School  in  Hadley  and 
report  at  a  future  meeting. 

As  the  outcome  of  this  action  of  the  town  there  was  further  cor- 
respondence between  the  Town  Committee  and  the  Trustees. 

At  a  special  meeting  of  the  Trustees,  held  Jan.  25,  1853,  the  fol- 
lowing communication  was  received  and  submitted  for  consideration : 

To  THE  TRUSTEES  OF  HOPKINS  ACADEMY, — Gentlemen  : 

The  accompanying  preamble  and  votes  were  passed  at  our  last  annual  town 
meeting,  and  the  undersigned  were  appointed  the  committee  therein  named. 
(Votes  just  quoted).  Should  yon  give  an  aillnnative  answer  to  the  proposi- 
tion of  the  town,  we  shall  most  cheerfully  cooperate  with  yon  in  any  measure 
authorixed  by  these  votes  of  the  town.  An  answer  as  early  as  convenient  is 
respectfully  requested. 

SAMUEL  NASH,      ] 
P.  S.  WILLIAMS,   1-  Committee. 
F.  BONNEY,  j 

Hadley,  Jan.  3,  1853. 

The  subject  was  considered  and  further  consideration  deferred  to 
another  meeting  held  Feb.  1,  1853,  when  it  was  voted  that  it  is  not 
expedient  for  the  trustees  to  comply  with  vote  of  the  town  to  make 
an  annual  report  to  the  town  of  the  condition  of  the  funds  of  Hop- 
kins Academy,  etc.,  also  that  it  is  not  expedient  to  petition  the  legis- 
lature so  to  amend  the  charter  of  the  Academy  as  to  require  such  re- 
port. 

Voted,  that  the  portion  of  the  vote  of  the  town  in  the  words  fol- 
lowing, ''together  with  such  other  amendments  of  the  charter  with 
reference  to  applying  the  funds  to  a  free  High  School  or  schools,  as 
such  Committee  and  the  Trustees  may  agree  upon,"  be  referred  to  a 


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committee  to  confer  with  the  Committee  of  the  Town  and  enquire 
into  the  expediency  of  such  a  change  and  report  at  a  future  meeting. 
Voted,  that  Rev.  R.  Ayrcs,  Kev.  W.  II.  Beunum  and  Rev.  J.  W. 
Curtis  be  said  committee. 

March  9th,  1853.  The  Committee  above  named  presented  their 
report  which  was  accepted  and  the  question  of  its  adoption  deferred 
to  the  next  meeting  of  the  Trustees,  to  be  held  April  13,  18f>;>. 

In  consequence  of  a  recent  vote  of  the  town  in  reference  to  the 
Academy,  (see  town  votes)  it  was  deemed  inexpedient  to  have  any 
further  action  on  the  report  of  the  committee  which  was  accepted  at 
the  last  meeting. 

ORDER    PRESENTED    TO    THE    TOWN    BY    PARSONS    WEST,    ESQ. 

At  a  town  meeting,  April  4,  1853,  adjourned  from  March  28,  the 
town  passed  this  vote  following : 

It  is  ordered  by  the  town  that  the  sum  of  six  hundred  dollars  be  raised, 
for  the  purpose  of  establishing  and  maintaining  a  free  High  School ;  pro- 
vided the  trustees  of  the  Academy  will  appropriate  the  funds  of  the  Academy 
or  a  portion  of  them,  for  this  object,  and  give  the  use  of  their  Academy 
building  for  the  school. 

That  the  General  School  Committee,  together  with  the  Trustees,  be  au- 
thorized to  procure  teachers,  decide  upon  qualifications  of  scholars  for  ad- 
mission into  the  school,  and  adopt  proper  measures  to  establish  said  school 
the  present  season. 

Nothing  in  this  vote  shall  be  construed  so  as  to  authorize  the  committee 
above  named  to  draw-  upon  the  treasury  for  more  than  six  hundred  dollars, 
and  if  the  whole  of  this  sum  is  not  wanted  for  the  school :  it  shall  remain  in 
said  treasury. 

COMMUNICATION  FROM   THE  TRUSTEES    OF  HOPKINS   ACADEMY 

TO  THE  TOWN. 

To  Samuel  Nash,  P.  S.  Williams  and  F.  Bonney,  committee  of  the  town  of 
Hadley.  Gentlemen : 

At  an  adjourned  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  holden  the 
13  instant,  the  Board  took  into  consideration  the  vote  passed  at  the  last  town 
meeting,  making  an  appropriation  upon  certain  conditions,  to  aid  the  object 
of  constituting  the  Academy  a  free  High  School,  and  in  reference  to  said  vote 
came  to  the  following  result,  a  copy  of  which  is  hereby  transmitted  to  you 
by  direction  of  the  Trustees. 

The  Trustees  approve  of  the  vote  of  the  town  and  concur  therein  Avith  the 
following  provisos : 

1st.  That  the  responsibility  for  employing  teachers  for  the  Academy 
devolve  upon  the  Trustees  with  the  concurrence  of  the  general  school 
committee. 


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2nd.  Thai  the  Trustees  consider  t heinselves  pledged  to  the  plan  proposed 
for  no  more  than  one  year,  and  that  the  town  by  their  vote  are  bound  for  no 
longer  period. 

3rd.  That  there  be  equal  opportunity  with  that  which  is  now  afforded  for 
advancement  on  the  part  of  pupils  in  the  superior  departments  of  literature 
and  science  and  that  it  be  the  duty  of  the  Trustees  to  furnish  instruction  to 
those  engaged  in  the  higher  branches  of  learning. 

4th.  That  the  doors  of  the  Academy  shall  be  opened  as  now  to  students 
from  abroad,  paying  the  regular  tuition  fees  demanded  by  the  Trustees,  and 
possessing  the  same  qualifications  required  of  students  from  the  town. 

5th.  That  in  deciding  on  questions  of  discipline,  in  relation  to  students 
from  the  town,  the  general  school  committee  shall  have  a  concurrent  voice 
with  the  Trustees. 

6th.  That  by  the  adoption  of  the  town's  vote  no  alteration  is  understood 
to  be  effected  or  attempted  in  the  organization  of  the  Academy.  The  only 
difference  is  the  payment  of  six  hundred  dollars  by  the  town,  on  account  of 
w^liich,  qualified  students  from  the  town  shall  be  entitled  to  the  benefits  of 
the  school  without  any  charge  for  tuition  and  to  the  other  privileges  custom- 
arily enjoyed  in  the  seminary,  and  the  general  school  committee  be  authorized 
in  connection  Avith  the  Trustees,  to  decide  on  their  qualifications,  and  take  a 
general  supervision  of  their  conduct  as  specified  in  proviso  No.  5. 

JOSEPH  W.  CURTIS,  Sec.  of  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy. 
Hadley,  April  14,  1853. 

At  a  town  meeting  held  May  2nd,  1853,  the  town  having  received 
the  above  communication  from  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy 
voted  that  the  foregoing  provisos  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy 
be  accepted  with  two  conditions  : 

1st.  That  the  General  School  committee  include  this  among  the  other 
public  schools  in  their  report  to  the  town. 

2nd.  That  the  Trustees  be  requested  either  by  themselves  or  through  the 
General  School  Committee  to  make  an  annual  report  to  the  town  of  the  con- 
dition, receipts  and  expenditures  of  the  school-  fund  under  their  care. 

Voted  that  the  Town  Clerk  be  authorized  to  transmit  a  copy  of  the  fore- 
going votes  to  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy. 

At  a  town  meeting  held  May  18,  1<S53,  the  town  received  the 
following  communication  from  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy : 

The  following  vote  was  passed  at  a  legal  meeting  of  the  Trustees  of  Hop- 
kins Academy,  May  9,  1853,  in  reference  to  a  vote  of  the  town  passed  at 
their  meeting  May  2,  1853,  making  request  of  the  Trustees  of  the  Academy 
that  they  annually  report  either  by  themselves  or  through  the  General  School 
Committee  to  the  town,  the  condition,  receipts  and  expenditures  of  the 
school  fund  under  their  care. 

Voted  that  the  Trustees  deem  it  inexpedient  to  make  an  annual  report  to 
the  town,  but  that  their  books  are  open  now,  as  they  ever  have  been,  to  the 
inspection  of  any  person  in  the  town.  A  true  copy  of  the  votes  of  the  Trustees. 
J.  -W.  CURTIS,  Sec.  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy. 


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At  the  same  meeting  of  the  Trustees  it  was  further  voted  that  C. 
P.  Hitchcock,  J.  W.  Curtis  and  Geo.  Dickinson  be  a  committee  to 
carry  into  effect  on  the  part  of  the  Trustees  the  plan  for  converting 
the  Academy  into  a  free  High  School,  as  set  forth  in  their  provisos 
adopted  April  13,  1853,  provided  the  way  is  opened  for  this  plan  to 
be  carried  out. 

At  the  town  mooting  before  mentioned  it  was  voted  by  the  town,  that  in 
passing  the  resolve  requesting  the  Trustees  to  make  an  annual  report,  the 
town  did  not  expect  that  any  action  of  the  Trustees  upon  that  resolve  would 
affect  the  general  plan  of  the  High  School. 

Voted  that  the  town  in  their  votes  of  May  2d,  did  not  intend  to  insist  on 
compliance  with  their  request  for  an  annual  report  from  the  Trustees,  as  a 
condition  essential  to  the  consummation  of  the  plan  of  union. 

It  is  easy  to  read  in  this  vote  the  feeling  that  the  vital  question  for 
the  town  was  the  enjoyment  of  the  school  privileges  thus  brought 
within  reach  and  that  it  would  not  be  wise  to  risk  their  loss  by 
insisting  o.n  a  point  of  so  much  less  consequence.  It  is  the  expression 
of  the  desire  to%cultivate  good  feeling  and  good  understanding  between 
the  town  and  the  Trustees. 

Under  the  plan  thus  agreed  upon  the  school  was  conducted  for  the 
year.  It  was  proposed  as  an  experiment  and  might  hist  longer  or  not 
according  as  the  working  of  the  plan  pleased  the  parties  to  it. 

The  committee  appointed  by  the  Trustees  and  the  school  committee 
of  the  town  worked  together  in  harmony  in  examining  pupils  for 
membership  in  the  school,  which  they  enjoyed  free'of  tuition.  The 
experiment  was  in  a  good  degree  a  success,  and  the  prospect  fair  that 
some  such  arrangement  might  be  permanent.  But  inasmuch  as  it  was 
limited  by  its  terms  to  one  year,  further  negotiation  must  ensue.  Its 
progress  and  result  are  now  to  be  noted. 

At  the  annual  town  meeting  March  27,  1854,  it  was  voted  to  raise 
the  sum  of  nine  hundred  and  one  dollars,  for  a  high  school,  six  hundred 
of  which  are  to  be  expended  in  connection  with  the  school  at  the 
Academy,  and  three  hundred  and  one  dollars  to  be  expended  at  the 
north  part  of  the  town,  all  of  which  shall  be  expended  under  the 
direction  of  the  general  school  committee. 

At  the  same  meeting  adjourned  to  April  7,  it  was  voted  that  a  com- 
mittee of  three  be  chosen  to  confer  with  the  Trustees  of  the  Academy 
and  if  after  consultation  they  are  of  the  opinion  that  it  is  illegal  or 
inexpedient  to  continue  the  High  School  on  the  present  plan,  then  the 
committee  are  instructed  to  request  the  Trustees  to  unite  with  the 
town  in  petitioning  the  next  Legislature  to  pass  an  act  authorizing 


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the  town  and  the  Trustees  to  unite  in  sustaining  a  free  High  School, 
niid  if  the  Trustees  will  unite  in  such  petition  the  committee  of  the 
town  request  them  to  join  in  the  adoption  of  some  plan  for  sustaining 
a  free  Higli  School  which  plan  shall  be  submitted  to  the  town  at  the 
annual  meeting  in  November  next. 

Voted  that  the  superintending  school  committee  be  the  above 
committee. 

Franklin  Bonney,  P.  Smith  Williams,  and  Samuel  Nash  were  chosen 
school  committee  at  the  annual  meeting  March  27,  1854.  This  was 
the  committee  named  above. 

May  2,  1854.  The  Trustees  received  the  following  communication 
from  the  committee  of  the  town : 

HADLEY,  April  21,  1854. 
GENTLEMEN  OF  THE  TRUSTEES  : 

At  the  animal  March  meeting  the  town  passed  the  following  vote  :  Voted 
to  raise  the  sum  of  nine  hundred  and  one  dollars  for  a  High  School,  six  hun- 
dred of  which  are  to  be  expended  in  connection  with  the  school  at  the 
Academy  and  three  hundred  and  one  dollars  to  be  expended  at  the  north  part 
of  the  town,  all  of  which  shall  be  expended  under  the  direction  of  the  general 
school  committee.  In  order  to  carry  out  the  wishes  of  the  town  in  this 
respect  we  wish  to  propose  the  following  questions  : 

Are  yon  willing  to  appropriate  the  necessary  portion  of  the  income  of  the 
Hopkins  fund  to  carry  on  the  free  High  School,  for  the  ensuing  year  in  con- 
nection with  the  town,  upon  a  plan  similar  to  the  one  acted  upon  during-  the 
past  year? 

If  so  will  you  please  to  take  the  necessary  preliminary  steps  as  soon  as 
may  suit  your  convenience.  Respectfully  yours,  &c., 

FRANKLIN  BONNEY,  ^ 

P.  S.  WILLIAMS,        I  Gen.  School  Committee. 
SAMUEL  NASH,  J 

In  reference  to  the  above  communication  the  following  vote  was 
passed  by  the  Trustees  and  ordered  to  be  presented  to  the  committee 
of  the  town  by  the  Secretary : 

Voted  that  the  Trustees  are  willing  to  unite  with  the  town  school 
committee  in  carrying  on  a  High  School  on  the  same  plan  as  last  year 
the  provisos  of  the  Trustees  passed  last  year  to  remain  still  in  force. 
The  following  named  persons  were  chosen  as  committee  to  unite  with 
the  town  in  carrying  into  effect  the  plan  of  the  free  High  School : 
Rev.  B.  Ay  res, 
Dea.  C.  P.  Hitchcock, 
Dea.  Geo.   Dickinson. 

May  16,  1854.  Information  was  communicated  to  the  Trustees 
that  the  committee  of  the  town  decline  executing  on  their  part  the 


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plan  of  the  High  School,  in  consequence  of  the  supposed  illegality  of 
such  a  measure,  legal  authority  having  been  consulted. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  trustees  held  Oct.  6,  1854,  the  following  com- 
munication from  the  school  committee  of  the  town  was  read  for 
consideration. 

Hartley,  Sept.  23d,  1854. 
To  THE  TRUSTEES  OF  HOPKINS  ACADEMY, — Gentlemen  : 

At  a  meeting  held  March  27,  1854,  the  town  passed  the  following  votes : 
Voted  that  a  committee  of  three  be  chosen  to  confer  with  the  trustees  of  the 
Academy,  and  if  after  consultation  they  are  of  the  opinion  that  it  is  illegal  or 
inexpedient  to  continue  the  High  School  on  the  present  plan,  then  the  com- 
mittee are  instructed  to  request  the  trustees  to  unite  with  the  town  in  peti- 
tioning the  next  legislature  to  pass  an  act  authorizing  the  town  and  the 
trustees  to  unite  in  sustaining  a  high  school,  and  if  the  trustees  will  unite  in 
such  petition,  the  committee  of  the  town  request  them  to  join  in  the  adoption 
of  some  plan  for  sustaining  a  Free  High  School,  which  plan  shall  be  submitted 
to  the  town  at  the  annual  meeting  in  November  next. 

Voted  that  the  superintending  school  committee  be  the  above  committee. 

In  accordance  with  the  provisions  of  the  above  Votes,  we  would  respect- 
fully address  you  upon  the  subject  therein  considered.  The  question  having 
early  come  up  in  committee  upon  the  legality  of  pursuing  the  same  plan  of 
operations  as  was  carried  on  last  year,  it  was  deemed  advisable  to  consult 
counsel  upon  the  matter.  The  answer  obtained  was  that  the  plan  was  illegal. 
It  was  consequently  not  entered  upon.  This  being  the  fact,  it  seems  desira- 
ble to  come  at  once  to  the  action  predicated  on  the  above  fact  being  ascertained. 

1st.  We  would,  therefore,  respectfully  request  you  to  unite  with  the  town 
in  petitioning  the  next  legislature  to  legalize  some  plan,  which  may  be  agreed 
upon  between  the  parties,  for  the  joint  maintenance  of  a  Free  High  School, 
by  the  trustees  and  the  town. 

2d.  If  you  should  not  deem  it  proper  to  accede  to  the  above  request,  would 
you  be  willing  that  the  town  should  make  such  petition  for  the  attainment  of 
the  same  object? 

Should  either  proposition  meet  with  your  approval,  will  you  be  good 
enough  to  appoint  a  committee  of  conference,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  meet 
the  town's  committee,  that  they  together  may  discuss  the  merits  of  some 
plan  which  shall  form  the  basis  upon  which  action  can  be  taken.  Your  earli- 
est convenient  action  upon  the  above  is  desirable  on  account  of  the  limited 
time.  Very  respectfully  yours  &c. 

FRANKLIN  BONNEY,  )    Committee 
P.  S.  WILLIAMS,        V        of  the 
SAMUEL  NASH,  )          Town. 

A  true  copy,  F.  Bouncy. 

After  sometime  spent  in  conferring  together  on  the  subject  of  the 
above  communication,  the  Trustees  voted  to  defer  the  consideration 
of  it  to  another  meeting. 


Ill) 

Oct.  10,  1854.  The  consideration  of  the  matter  was  still  further 
postponed  until  Oct.  16th,  when  the  following  letter  in  the  form  of 
an  answer  to  the  communication  from  the  committee  of  the  town  was 
adopted  : 

Hadley,  Oct.  10,  1854. 

To  MESSRS.    FRANKLIN    BONNKY,  P.   S.  WILLIAMS   AND  SAMUEL  NASH, 
Gentlemen  : 

Your  communication  dated  the  2<Ui  ult.,  to  the  trustees  of  Hopkins  Acade- 
my has  been  received  by  the  trustees  and  the  proposals  it  contains  have  been 
fully  and  amply  considered.  We  quote  your  own  words.  See  the  questions 
1  and  2,  as  contained  in  the  copy  of  the  letter  of  the  committee. 

With  respect  to  the  second  of  these  questions  we  regard  it  as  a  virtual 
repetition  in  another  form  of  the  first,  inasmuch  as  consent  requested  in  the 
last  instance  would  involve  the  same  obligations  on  our  part  with  the  appoint- 
ment of  a  special  committee  by  us  to  cooperate  with  the  town  for  the  pur- 
pose expressed. 

Our  answer,  therefore,  is  general,  meeting  at  once  both  the  questions. 

We  feel  constrained  to  say,  gentlemen,  that  we  do  not  deem  it  expedient  to 
accede  to  your  proposals  and  must,  therefore,  w.ith  a  due  sense  of  our 
responsibilities  decline  the  cooperation  which  you  solicit.  Our  principle 
reasons  for  this  decision  may  be  expressed  in  a  few  words. 

1.  We  are  well  satisfied  with  the  charter  as  it  is,  being  the  result  of  com- 
bined legislative  and  judicial  wisdom  and  a  vast  improvement  on  any  plan  of 
a  free  school  before  existing  on  the  basis  of  the  Hopkins  fund.     For  nearly 
forty  years  the  Academy  has  been,  upon  the  whole,  a  great  blessing  to  the 
town,  and  it  has  been,  moreover,  a  source  of  rich  instruction  to  not  a  few7, 
whose  influence  is  now  felt  in  all  parts  of  our  land,  and  in  the  remote  regions 
of  the  earth.     We  are  not  willing  to  hazard  the  abrogation  or  material  modi- 
fication of  a  charter,  the  effects  of  which  have  been  so  widely  beneficial,  nor 
do  we  think  that  the  alleged  advantages  of  a  single  year's    experiment  under 
peculiar  circumstances,  have  been  sufficient  to  justify  such  an  attempt. 

2.  We  believe  that  the  objects  contemplated  in  your  communication,  can 
be  better   secured  by  such  a  corporation  as  the  charter  has  established,  than 
by  the  concurrent  authoritative  agency  of  the  trustees  and  a  school  committee 
of  the  town,  chosen  annually  for  the  purpose.     Committees  and  towns  may 
fluctuate.     But  a  charter  remains  the  same  in  its  principles  and  provisions. 

3.  The  design  of  many  of  the  donors  to  the  Academy  will  be  defeated  if 
its  management  in  whote  or  in  part  be  taken  from  the  hands  of  the  trustees. 

4.  The  slightest  invasion,  by  legislative  enactments  or  in  an}'  other  way,  of 
chartered  rights   and   obligations,  is  dangerous  as   a  precedent   and  in  its 
natural  consequences,  to  the  entire  interests  for  which  a  charter  is  given  and 
the  justification  of  it  involves  a  principle  which  if  extensively  carried  out. 
would  destroy  all  confidence  in  the  most  sacred  legal  securities. 

f>.     The  town  has  no  more  exclusive'  right  to  the  funds  of  Hopkins  Acad- 
emy than  to  those  of  any  other  literary  institution,  and  can.  therefore,  claim 
no  just  authority  to  appropriate  them  for  its  own  exclusive  benefit.     This 
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point  lias  been  long;  since  settled  in  law.  and  by  the  decisions  of  the  highest 
judicial  tribunals. 

(!.  It  will  probabl.v  be  admitted  that  the  trustees,  as  individuals,  are  as 
well  qualified  as  any  school  committee  appointed  by  the  town  could  be,  to 
manage  the  funds  of  the  institution  for  the  public  benefit  and  to  determine 
their  appropriation.  Will  it  be  contended  that  the  trustees  are  not  as  much 
the  friends  of  the  town  and  the  cause  of  education  as  the  generality  of  their 
townsmen  and  neighbors?  They  cannot  then  see  any  reason  that  their  good 
will  and  fidelity  should  be  distrusted  merely  on  account  of  their  peculiar 
relation  to  the  Academy  as  the  constituted  guardians  of  its  interests.  If 
unreasonable  prejudices  do  exist  they  cannot  with  propriety  be  quieted  by 
concessions  to  unreasonable  demands. 

7.  The  price  of  tuition  here  is  extremely  low,  compared  with  that  of  most 
institutions  of  a  similar  character  and  in  proportion  to  the  increase  of  our 
income  there  may  be  expected  a  diminution  of  charges  for  the  benefits  of 
instruction  in  all  the  higher  branches  of  learning.  What  more  can  be  asked? 
If  the  town,  as  such,  cannot  vote, money  for  the  common  good  of  the  Acad- 
emy, individuals  can  easily  bind  themselves  to  secure  such  a  result,  by  their 
personal  subscriptions  and  contributions.  Nor  is  it  absolutely  certain  that 
the  town  may  not  obtain  leave  of  the  legislature  to  raise  money  for  the  pay" 
ment  of  the  tuition  of  children  here  under  the  present  organization.  At  all 
events,  the  trustees  believe,  whatever  may  have  been  done  in  other  places, 
that  it  is  best,  on  the  whole  for  all  concerned,  that  the  charter  of  our  Acad- 
emy should  remain  unmolested,  and  that  one  important  departure  from  the 
original  principles  of  the  incorporation  might  hereafter  be  pleaded  as  an  apol- 
ogy for  other  and  more  essential  deviations,  subversive  of  the  entire  object  for 
which  the  Seminary  was  founded.  The  first  step  in  a  wrong  direction  is  most 
scrupulously  to  be  avoided  and  naturally  leads  as  by  a  kind  of  necessity  to 
wider  and  wider  aberrations  from  the  course  of  wisdom  and  duty. 

For  these  among  other  reasons  the  trustees  decline  any  action  favorable  to 
the  wishes  of  the  committee  on  the  subject  propounded  in  their  letter  for 
consideration.  If  the  trustees  have  in  any  instance  transcended  their  consti- 
tutional powers,  they  would  not  on  this  account  repeat  the  offence,  much  less 
ask  a  repeal  or  essential  alteration  of  their  charter. 

It  was  voted  to  adopt  the  above  letter  as  the  answer  of  the  board 
to  the  communication  from  the  committee  of  the  town,  and  the  secre- 
tary was  instructed  to  forward  accordingly,  and  copy  of  the  same. 

The  vote  of  Rev.  Rowland  Ayres  is  here  recorded  by  his  request  as 
having  been  in  opposition  to  the  vote  of  a  majority  of  the  trustees, 
to  give  a  negative  answer  to  the  communication  from  the  general 
school  committee. 

At  this  date  all  attempts  at  negotiation  censed  between  the  town 
and  the  trustees  until  March,  1860. 

It  is  clear  from  this  record  that  the  vote  of  the  trustees  to  return 
such  answer  to  the  committee  of  the  town  was  not  unanimous.  There 


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other  dissentients  than  the  one  whose  dissent  was  by  request 
made  matter  of  record.  There  was  a  feeling  in  the  minority,  that  the 
answer  hardly  did  full  justice  to  the  other  party,  and  that  rather  than 
dispose  of  the  question  so  summarily  and  finally,  it  was  better  to  keep 
it  open  for  further  conference,  in  the  hope  that  some  result  in  which 
all  could  concur  and  rest  content,  might  be  reached.  But  that  this 
might  be,  there  was  need  of  time.  With  it  came  change  such  as 
is  now  to  be  recorded. 

The  school  still  went  on  with  its  good  work.  The  matter  was  no 
longer  agitated  until,  in  course  of  Providence,  occasion  which  none 
had  looked  for  arose. 

On  the  morning  of  Feb.  18,  1860,J;he  Academy  building  and  all  its 
contents  were  destroyed  by  fire.  No  insurance.  The  school,  how- 
ever, was  not  discontinued.  Two  rooms  in  the  house  of  Lucius  Grain 
were  engaged,  where  the  school  was  kept,  until  a  room  for  the  purpose 
was  made  ready  under  the  First  church  building,  the  next  autumn. 

Feb.  18,  1860,  the  Trustees  voted  to  instruct  the  Prudential  Com- 
mittee to  make  such  an  arrangement  for  the  continuance  of  the  school 
in  consideration  of  the  burning  of  the  Academy  Building  on  the 
morning  of  this  day,  as  they  may  deem  advisable. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  March  26,  1860,  Mr.  S.  C.  Wilder, 
chairman  of  a  committee  appointed  by  the  town  for  that  purpose, 
presented  the  following  proposition  : 

"  At  a  legal  meeting  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Hadley,  held  in  the 
Town  Hall  in  said  Hadley,  the  26th  day  of  March,  1860.  Voted,  whereas,  in 
the  Providence  of  God,  the  Academy  building  has  been  destroyed  by  fire  and 
thereby  a  favorable  opportunity  presented  to  the  town  for  an  eftbrt  to  make 
available  to  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  the  benefits  of  the  school  fund. 
which  was  given  by  the  town  and  by  benevolent  individuals,  for  the  promo- 
tion and  advancement  of  learning;  therefore  voted:  that  the  town  will  erect 
a  building  suitable  for  the  accommodation  of  a  Free  High  School,  provided 
the  trustees  will  enter  into  an  arrangement  and  agreement  with  the  town, 
that  they  will  appropriate  the  annual  income  of  the  Fund  to  aid  in  support  of 
such  school." 

At  this  meeting  a  committee  of  ten,  one  from  each  school  district, 
was  appointed  to  confer  with  the  trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  in 
relation  to  the  use  of  the  income  of  their  fund  to  support  a  High 
school  or  schools  and  to  form  some  plan  both  of  schools  and  build- 
ings to  be  submitted  to  the  town  for  their  action  at  an  adjourned 


\->'2 

This  committee  was  : 

From  Dist.  No.  1,  8.  C.  Wilder,  Dist.  No.  (5,  R.  M.  Montague, 

44        *2,  O.  K.  Bonney,  u        7,  Stephen  Johnson, 

"  "        3,  Rodney  Smith,  "        <S,  Benjamin  Adams, 

44  '  "        4,  Win.  S.  Shipman,  44         i),  Edmund  Smith, 

4'        5,  Chas.  Lamson,  44      10,  Parsons  West. 

On  receiving  from  the  town  an  official  communication  informing 
the  trustees  of  this  action  it  was  voted  44that  the  trustees  of  Hopkins 
Academy  look  with  favor  upon  the  vote  of  the  town  passed  this  day, 
March  *26,  indicating  their  wish  to  secure  more  fully  the  benefits  of 
the  Hopkins  Fund  and  they -will  respectfully  consider  any  definite 
proposition  presented  by  the  committee  of  the  town  for  the  attain- 
ment of  that  object." 

Voted  that  the  trustees  meet  the  committee  of  the  town  on  Friday 
evening,  March  30th,  at  6  o'clock  at  the  house  of  Lucius  Crain. 

At  this  meeting  on  invitation  the .  town's  committee,  through 
S.  C.  Wilder,  their  chairman,  laid  before  the  trustees  two  separate 
proposititions  either  of  which  it  was  considered  would  be  satisfactory 
to  the  town,  provided  they  should  meet  the  approval  of  the  trustees. 

The  prudential  committee  was  appointed  a  committee  to  consider 
the  propositions  of  the  town,  and  to  prepare  a  statement  of  the  views 
of  the  trustees  to  be  presented  to  their  board  on  Monday  afternoon 
immediately  after  the  close  of  the  school.  At  this  meeting  it  way 
voted  not  to  seek  legal  advice  at  present. 

At  the  meeting  of  the  trustees  April  2,  1860,  the  prudential  com- 
mittee made  report  on  the  subject  committed  to  their  consideration  at 
the  previous  meeting.  The  proposition  drawn  up  by  them  to  be 
presented  to  the  committee  of  the  town  consisted  of  ten  articles,  and 
after  discussion  and  some  slight  modifications  by  the  board,  was  acted 
upon  and  accepted.  The  vote  on  Article  1st,  was  as  follows  : 

AYES.  NAYS. 

Dea.  C.  P.  Hitchcock,  Capt.  E.  Smith, 

Rev.  R.  Ay  res,  Rev.  Tuxbury, 

J.  R.  Davenport,  J.  B.  Porter,  Esq. 

Rev.  W.  H.  Beaman, 
F.  Bonney. 

The  succeeding  articles  were  adopted  unanimously.  Voted  to. pre- 
sent this  document  as  a  proposition  of  the  trustees  to  the  town,  to  the 
committee  of  the  town. 


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This  proposition  had  reference  to  a  communication  of  the  committee 
of  the  town  here  given,  as  follows  : 

April  6,  the  trustees  met  the  committee  of  the  town  in  conference 
and  after  full  discussion  this  plan  submitted  by  the  trustees  was,  with 
some  slight  modifications,  adopted  as  the  joint  action  of  the  two  to 
be  submitted  to  the  town  on  Tuesday  next  (April  10)  at  the  adjourned 
town  meeting. 

This  proposition  had  reference  to  a  communication  of  the  committee 
of  the  town  here  given,  as  follows  : 

TO   TIIK   TlJl'STEES   OF   THE    HOPKINS   FUND,    MESSRS: 

In  accordance  with  the  vote  of  the  town  passed  at  its  annual  town  meeting, 
March  2(!,  1860,  and  to  secure  the  privileges  therein  referred  to,  we  would 
respectfully  present  to  your  honorable^  body  the  following  propositions  as  a 
plan  of  union  or  agreement  between  the  trustees  of  the  Hopkins  Fund  and  the 
town  of  Hadley,  whereby  the  wishes  of  said  town,  as  expressed  in  their  vote, 
may  be  successfully  carried  out. 

1.  The  town  shall  furnish  a  building  with  its  necessary  appendages,  con- 
veniences and  furniture  suitable  for  a  high  school. 

2.  The  town  shall  appropriate  two  hundred  dollars,  at  the  outset,  or  from 
time  to  time  as  need  may  require,  for  the  purchase  of  maps,  charts,  globes, 
philosophical  and  chemical  apparatus  etc.  for  the  use  of  the  school,  provided 
the  trustees  of  the  Hopkins  Fund  shall  appropriate  from  the  income  of  said 
fund  a  like  sum  for  the  same  purpose. 

3.  The  trustees  of  the  Hopkins  Fund  shall  maintain  a  High  school  in  this 
building,  which  school  shall  be  free  to  the  whole  town. 

4.  The    High    school   shall   comprise  the   higher  English   and   classical 
departments  which  shall  be  of  a  grade  equal  to  the  best  academies. 

5.  The  terms  of  admission  to  said   school  shall  be  uniform,  and  shall  be 
prescribed  by  the  trustees  of  the  Hopkins  Fund  and  yet  made  acceptable  to 
the  school  committee  of  the  town  as  now  constituted. 

(!.  Scholars  admitted  to  this  school  from  6ther  towns  shall  pay  in  advance, 
such  rates  of  tuition  as  those  having  the  supervision  of  it  may  demand ;  but 
in  no  case  shall  such  tuition  be  less  than  that  charged  by  the  trustees  of 
Hopkins  Academy  at  the  present  time. 

7.  There  shall  be  such  a  prescribed  course  of  studies  in  said  High  School 
as  shall  usually  require  three  years  to  complete  and  these  studies  shall  be 
determined  by  the  trustees  of  the  Hopkins  Fund. 

8.  Every  pupil  who  shall  have  completed  the  full  course  of  study  pre- 
scribed and  whose  general  deportment,  during  his  or  her  connection  with  the 
school,  shall  have  been  worthy  of   commendation,  shall  receive  a  diploma 
certifying  to  that  effect,  which  diploma  shall  be  signed  by  the  principal  of  the 
school  and  by  the  President  of  the  board  of  trustees. 

9.  Under  the  above  requirements  and  limitations  the  trustees  of  the  Hop- 
kins Fund  shall  have  the  sole  supervision  of  the  said  High  school. 

All  of  which  is  respectfully  submitted, 

S.  C.  WILDER,  Chairman  Town  Committee. 


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Hadley,  March  29,  18«0. 

Just  what  action  was  had  on  this  paper  in  the  board  of  trustees  is 
not  clear.  This  plan  of  union,  however,  in  its  essential  features  was 
accepted  by  the  trustees,  embodied  in  the  report  of  the  committee  to 
the  town  and  by  the  town  accepted  and  adopted. 

The  proposition  of  the  trustees  in  answer  to  the  foregoing  from  the 
town  committee  is  as  follows  : 

To  S.  C.  WILDER,  ESQ.,  CHAIRMAN  OF  COMMITTEE  OF  THE  TOWN  OF  HADI.KY. 
Sir: — The  trustees  of  Hopkins  Acaclmy  recognizing  the  Providence 
of  God  in  the  loss  by  fire  of  the  Academy  building  regard  the  present  as  a 
very  important  and  critical  time  in  the  history  of  their  affairs.  They  wish  to 
understand  and  meet  the  demands  of  the  town  in  the  best  possible  manner, 
and  so  that  the  fund  may  be  more  widely  useful  than  it  has  been  heretofore, 
especially  to  the  town.  We  wish,  if  possible,  to  enter  into  such  arrangement 
with  the  town  as  shall  make  the  Academy  a  permanent  blessing  to  all  future 
generations,  the  ornament  and  pride  of  the  town. 

If  their  fund  can  be  relieved  of  expense  for  other  purposes,  the  trustees 
believe  its  income  adequate  to  the  support  of  a  school  of  a  high  order  free  to 
all  the  children  of  Hadley,  of  suitable  age  and  qualifications,  and  are  willing 
that  the  whole  of  said  income  be  devoted  to  this  use  on  certain  conditions 
accepted  by  both  parties.  To  this  end  the  trustees  do  not  deem  it  necessary 
to  surrender  their  charter,  nor  at  present  at  least,  seek  its  modification. 
They  prefer  still  to  be  known  as  the  trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  and  use 
their  rights  and  powers  as  such,  and  to  have  the  school,  which  their  fund 
supports,  known  as  Hopkins  Academy  and  under  their  own  oversight  and 
control.  But  though  such  be  the  legal  technical  designation  and  character 
of  the  school,  they  wish  it  to  be  to  all  practical  intents  and  purpose,  a  high 
school  of  no  common  order.  Holding  these  views  it  is  obvious  that  the  plan 
No.  2,  submitted  by  your  committee  is  without  objection  to  the  trustees  of 
Hopkins  Academy,  and  they  are  ready  to  adopt  it  with  certain  modifications, 
which  they  hope  and  believe  will  be  approved  by  the  committee  and  the  town. 
The  trustees  would,  therefore,  submit  for  consideration  the  following 

PLAN  OF  UNION. 

1.  The  town  shall  build  and  furnish  and  keep  in  repair  a  neat  and  commo- 
dious house  for  the  proposed  school,  after  apian  and  upon  a  site  to  be  agreed 
upon  by  the  trustees  and  a  committee  chosen  by  the  town.     In  case  a  site 
near  that  lately  destroyed  be  chosen,  the  trustees  will  give  so  much  of  the 
material  of  the  old  building  as  may  be  useful  in  the  construction  of  the  new 
one. 

2.  The  town   shall  support  an  intermediate  school  in  said  building,  to  be 
wholly  under  its  own  control  for  scholars  of  attainments  insufficient  to  enter 
the  Academy,  but  pupils  duly  qualified  elsewhere 'may  enter  the  Academy 
without  passing  through  said  intermediate  school. 

3.  The  town   shall  appropriate  one  hundred  dollars,  at  the  outset,  for  the 
purchase  of  maps,  charts,  globes,  philosophical  and  chemical  apparatus  etc.. 


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for  tlir  use  of  the  Academy.  The  trustees  of  the  Hopkins  fund  engaging  to 
appropriate  a  like  sum  for  the  same  purpose. 

4.  The  trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  shall  maintain  in  this  building  a 
school  embracing  the  higher  English  and  classical  departments  of  a  rank 
corresponding  to  that  of  the  best  academies,  and  free  to  all  the  children  duly 
qualified  in  the  town,  said  school  to  be  the  best  that  the  net  income  of  the 
fund  will  afford. 

">.  The  terms  of  admission  to  said  school  shall  be  uniform  and  be  pre- 
scribed by  the  trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  but  made  acceptable  to  the 
school  committee  of  the  town,  as  at  present  constituted,  provided,  however, 
that  scholars  of  proper  age  may  enter  the  classical  department  without  exam- 
ination and  provided  also  that  scholars  15  years  of  age  and  upwards  may  be 
admitted  without  examination  on  petition  of  the  school  committee  of  the 
town,  at  the  discretion  of  the  trustees. 

<;.  Scholars  not  of  this  town  shall  pay  in  advance  on  their  admission,  such 
rates  of  tuition  as  the  trustees  may  fix,  but  in  no  case  shall  they  be  admitted 
at  lower  rates  than  those  now  charged. 

7.  There  shall  be  a  prescribed   course   of   study   in  said  school,  such  as 
ordinarily   to  require   three  years   to  complete   it,  to  be  regulated  by  the 
trustees  so  as  to  meet  the  approbation   of  the  present  school  committee  of 
the  town. 

8.  Every  pupil  who   shall  have  completed  the  full  course  of  study  pre- 
scribed and  whose  general  deportment  during  his  or  her  connection  with  the 
school  shall   have  been  worthy  of   commendation,  shall   receive   a  diploma 
certifying  to  that  effect,  which   diploma  shall  be  signed  by  the  principal  of 
the  school  and  by  the  President  of  the  board  of  trustees. 

9.  Under  the   conditions  and  limitations  above  specified,  the  trustees  of 
Hopkins  Academy  will  pay  the  whole  expense  of  instruction,  and  that  only , 
in  said  school  and  have  its  entire  oversight  and  control.    * 

10.  Either  party  shall  be  at  liberty  to  withdraw  from  the  above  arrange- 
ments when  its  own  interests  shall  seem  so  to  require  and  either  party  violat- 
ing the  terms  of  the  engagement  the  other  may  consider  it  to  have  expired 
by  its  own  limitations. 

The  trustees  at  a  meeting  held  April  2,  accepted  this  plan  of  union 
and  on  the  sixth  of  the  same  month,  in  a  meeting  of  the  trustees  and 
the  committee  of  the  town,  after  full  discussion,  it  was  adopted,  with 
some  slight  modifications,  as  the  joint  action  of  the  two,  to  be  sub- 
mitted to  the  town  at  the  adjourned  meeting  April  10.  This  meeting 
of  the  town  voted  to  accept  and  adopt  the  report  of  this  committee, 
and  appoint  a  committee  of  ten,  one  from  each  school  district,  with 
power  to  act  under  the  first  article  of  the  general  plan  for  establishing 
a  high  school.  In  case  said  committee  cannot  agree  with  the  trustees 
in  locating  said  building,  then  said  committee  shall  be  empowered  to 
refer  the  question  for  final  adjustment  to  a  disinterested  reference, 


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chosen  from  out  of  town  and  report  their  action  to  the  town  at  some 
future  meeting.  The  names  of  the  committee  are  these  that  follow  : 
Dist.  No.  1,  Eleazar  Porter;  2,  Oliver  E.  Bonney  ;  3,  Rodney  Smith  ; 
4,  Wm.  S.  Shipman;  5,  L.  N.  Granger;  6,  Levi  Stockbridge  ;  .7, 
Stephen  Johnson;  8,  Benjamin  Adams;  9,  Edmund  Smith;  10, 
Parsons  West.  Voted  that  the  above  committee  also  submit  a  plan 
for  a  building  and  a  site  for  a  High  school  at  North  Hadley. 

April  10,  1860.  In  presenting  this  plan  to  the  town  the  committee 
use  these  words  by  way  of  preface  : 

"  In  all  their  deliberations  among  themselves  and  in  their  various  meetings 
with  the  Trustees,  an  earnest  desire  to  secure  to  thetoAvn  the  amplest  literary 
privileges  within  their  power  has  been  abundantly  manifested  and  as  much 
harmony  of  feeling  and  action  has  prevailed  as  was  consistent  with  a  full 
discussion  of  the  propositions  coming  under  their  consideration,  and  in  all 
their  consultations  with  one  another  and  with  the  Trustees  unanimous  results 
have  usually  been  achieved."*  See  report  on  file  with  Town  Clerk. 

April  13,  1860.  At  a  meeting  of  the  Trustees  a  communication 
was  received  from  the  committee  of  the  town  empowered  to  consult 
with  the  Trustees  with  reference  to  a  site  for  the  school  building, 
stating  that  a  sub-committee  consisting  of  Eleazer  Porter,  Esq..  Levi 
Stockbridge,  Esq.,  and  Gen.  Parsons  West,  was  ready  to  meet  the 
Trustees  for  the  purpose  indicated.  It  was  voted  that  the  Prudential 
Committee  be  appointed  a  sub-committee  to  meet  them  in  behalf  of 
the  Trustees. 

Voted  that  the  Trustees  have  a  strong  preference  for  a  site  contiguous  to 
that  occupied  by  the  old  building. 

April  19th,  1860.  The  Prudential  Committee  made  a  verbal  report 
with  regard  to  their  interview  with  the  committee  of  the  town  having 
in  charge  the  selection  of  a  site  for  the  contemplated  Academy  building. 
A  proposition  was  received  from  the  committee  of  the  town  asking  the 
Trustees  to  accept  for  a  site  the  land  now  occupied  by  Mr.  John 
Pierce,  on  Middle  street. 

After  a  discussion  of  this  communication  the  following  action  was 
taken : 

Voted  that  the  Trustees  do  not  deem  it  advisable  to  accede  to  the  proposi- 
tion of  the  committee  of  the  town  for  a  site,  but  that  all  things  considered, 
they  believe  it  for  the  best  interests  of  all  concerned,  that  the  house  to  be 


*NOTE. — In  the  proposition  presented  to  the  town  occurs  this  addition  to  Art.  2,  as  found 
above  :  "The  town  shall  also  provide  a  suitable  building  and  therein  support  a  high  school 
in  the  north  part  of  the  town  for  at  least  two  terms  of  eleven  weeks  each,  every  year,  and 
all  the  money  appropriated  to  the  ten  district  schools  shall  be  divided  hereafter  equally 
among  said  schools." 


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built  should  be  located  upon  a  site  which  can  be  procured,  upon  the  land  of 
Mr.  fJeorgc  (Jaylord,  near  the  site  of  the  old  building.  And  the  Trustees 
sincerely  hope  that  the  town  will  see  fit  to  accept  of  the  location  proposed. 

April  26,  1860.  The  following  communication  was  presented  by 
the  committee  of  the  town  : 

"To  THE  TRUSTEES  OF  HOPKINS  ACADEMY: 

At  a  meeting  of  the  committee  of  the  town  in  regard  to  a  site  for  a  High 
School  house,  held  at  the  Town  Hall  in  Hartley,  April  23,  18(50. 

Voted  not  to  accept  the  proposition  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy 
for  a  site  for  a  High  School  house. 

'Voted,  that  owing  to  a  difference  of  opinion  between  the  committee  of  the 
town  and  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy ,  we  in  compliance  with  the  vote 
of  the  town  respectfully  ask  said  Trustees  to  submit  the  question  of  the 
location  of  the  High  School  house  to  disinterested  arbitrators  from  out  of 
town,  to  be  agreed  upon  by  the  Trustees  and  the  town  committee. 

WM.  S.  SHIPMAN,  Secretary." 

After  a  full  discussion  of  the  proposition  of  the  committee  of  the 
town  it  was  moved  and  seconded  that  the  proposition  of  the  town  to* 
decide  the  question  of  a  locality  for  a  High  School  building  by  a 
reference  of  the  question  to  disinterested  arbitrators  from  out  of  town 
be  accepted.  A  vote  upon  the  above  motion  was  taken  by  yeas  and 
nays,  with  the  following  result : 

YEAS.  NAYS. 

Rev.  W.  H.  Beaman,  Capt.  Elijah  Smith, 

Rev.  R.  Ayres,  Dea.  C.  P.  Hitchcock, 

Dea.  Simeon  Dickinson,  James  B.  Porter,  Esq., 

Mr.  J.  R.  Davenport,  Dea.  George  Dickinson, 

F.   Bonney.  Rev.  F.  Tuxbury. 

The  committee  of  the  town  in  their  report  presented  May  7,  1860, 
close  with  these  words  :  k'  At  this  point  all  further  action  was  stayed. 
Your  committee,  feeling  that  they  had  no  power  to  proceed  in  the 
premises,  concluded  to  refer  the  whole  subject  to  the  town  for  their 
consideration,  hoping  that  they  in  their  wisdom  will  devise  some  plan 
whereby  this  difference  between  them  and  the  Trustees  may  be  com- 
promised in  a  way  that  shall  give  the  town  the  ud vantage  of  this  great 
boon  which  lias  come  almost  within  their  grasp."  It  was  voted  that 
the  report  of  the  committee  of  the  town  in  regard  to  a  site  for  a  High 
School  house  was  read  and  voted  to  be  accepted  and  placed  on  file 
and  the  committee  was  discharged  from  all  further  duties." 

At  this  point  attempt  at  futher  negotiation  ended. 

Aug.  3,  I860.     The  Trustees  voted  to  instruct  the  Prudential  Com- 
mittee to  inquire  into  the  expediency  of  fitting  up  the  room  in  the 
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rear  of  the  First  church  or  some  other  room  for  the  use  of  the  school. 
Aug.  6,  voted  to  instruct  the  Prudential  Committee  to  fit  up  the  room 
back  of  the  vestry  of  the  First  church  for  a  school-room.  The  Parish 
Committee  propose  that  if  the  Trustees  do  this  and  insure  the  church 
against  fire  for  the  year  they  will  charge  nothing  for  the  use  of  the 
building.  It  is  understood  that  the  committee  are  to  purchase  desks 
and  chairs,  which  shall  answer  for  a  part  of  the  furniture  of  the  ne\v 
building  which  may  be  hereafter  erected.  In  the  school-room  thus 
fitted  up  the  school  was  kept,  reduced  to  such  numbers  as  the  capacity 
of  the  room  would  accommodate.  The  number  of  classes  was  reduced 
to  ten  so  that  one  teacher  might  do  the  work  of  instruction  without 
assistance.  All  scholars  were  to  enter  some  of  these  classes,  their 
fitness  to  be  ascertained  by  an  examination  by  the  Trustees. 

At  this  period,  between  Feb.  18,  1860,  and  Jan.  18,  1801,  several 
votes  were  passed  at  different  meetings  with  reference  to  obtaining  :> 
site  and  plan  for  a  new  building  and  securing  funds  for  its  erection, 
with  no  result. 

July  30,  1861.  It  was  voted  that  it  is  expedient  to  secure  another 
room  in  connection  with  the  present  one  and  employ  an  additional 
teacher.  Voted  that  the  Prudential  Committee  be  instructed  to  pro- 
vide two  rooms  for  the  accommodation  of  two  teachers  the  coming 
year. 

In  Sept.,  1861,  an  agreement  was  signed  by  the  Prudential  Com- 
mittee and  the  Parish  Committee  of  the  First  Religious  Society  con- 
cerning the  use  of  the  school-rooms  provided  as  aforesaid,  for  a  term 
of  years  not  exceeding  four,  at  an  annual  rent  of  $125.00. 

At  the  annual  meeting  of  the  Trustees,  Nov.  17,  1862,  Rev.  R. 
Ayres,  Levi  Stockbridge,  Theodore  G.  Hunting-ton,  were  chosen  :i 
committee  to  enquire  if  the  benefits  of  the  Hopkins  Fund  cannot  l>e 
more  widely  diffused  in  Its  relation  to  the  town. 

This  committee  presented  their  report  in  writing  to  the  board  at  a 
meeting  held  March  30,  1863,  as  follows  : 

The  committee  for  enqniryig  into  the  expediency  of  extending  the  benefits 
of  the  Academy  more  widely  would  report  that  it  is,  in  their  view,  meet  and 
desirable  to  make  to  the  town  of  lladley  at  its  annual  meeting  held  this  day, 
the  overture  following  : 

HADLEY,  March  30,  1803. 

The  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  moved  by  the  desire  to  elevate  the 
character  of  the  school  under  their  care,  and  extend  its  benefits  to  a  large.i 
number  than  at  present,  hereby  make  to  the  town  of  lladley  the  following 
proposition,  namely,  in  consideration  of  a  sum  of  money  not  to  exceed  three 


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hundred  dollars,  to  be  paid  by  the  town  to  said  Trustees  to  aid  in  paying  the 
expense  of  necessary  instruction,  and  a  further  sum  not  to  exceed  one  hundred 
dollars  for  the  purpose  of  seating  the  north  school-room,  now  occupied  by 
said  Trustees,  uniformly  with  the  south  room,  the  seats  to  remain  the  property 
of  the  town.  They  will  open  the  school  with  all  its  advantages,  free  of 
charge  for  tuition,  to  such  scholars  from  the  town  of  Hadley  as  shall  sustain 
examination  according  to  the  standard  of  admission  hereinafter  named. 
The  number  to  be  admitted  must  be  limited  by  the  present  accommodations 
of  the  school-rooms,  &c. 

It  is  proposed  to  otter  such  qualified  scholars  the  advantages  of  a  thorough 
course  of  English  instruction  to  be  completed  ordinarily  in  three  years.  Such 
pupils  will  be  entitled  likewise  to  a  course  of  classical  study  and  instruction 
sufficient  to  qualify  young  men  for  admission  to  college. 

Students  from  abroad  are  to  be  admitted  to  the  same  privileges  by  the 
payment  of  tuition. 

The  standard  of  admission  for  the  present,  subject  to  such  modifications 
as  experience  may  dictate,  shall  be  the  following : 

Some  knowledge  of  the  English  language  in  its  elementary  sounds  and 
characters;  ability  to  read  with  tolerable  facility  in  Sargent's  Fourth  Reader 
and  to  spell  the  words  in  Sargent's  Speller ;  mental  Arithmetic  and  written 
Arithmetic  to  percentage,  in  Robinson's  or  an  equivalent;  Colton  and  Fitch's 
School  Geography. 

The  Trustees  make  this  offer  for  a  single  year  and  yet  they  make  it  in  good 
faith,  hoping  that  some  such  arrangement  may  be  permanent  and  mutually 
satisfactory.  The  understanding  in  making  this  proposal  is  that  the  school 
shall  be  under  the  care  of  the  present  principal,  and  the  Trustees  engage  to 
secure  for  the  year  or  part  of  it,  as  may  be  found  necessary,  such  assistance 
as  shall  be  acceptable  to  the  General  School  Committee  of  the  town.  They 
will  likewise  encourage  in  said  committee  the  most  watchful  scrutiny  of  the 
school,  receive  from  them  hints  for  its  improvement,  and  study  to  make  it  in 
all  respects  worthy  of  their  approbation  and  that  of  the  citizenship  of  the 
town.  R.  AYRES,  Vice-Pres.  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 

F.  BONNEY,  Secretary. 

At  the  town  meeting  of  this  date,  March  30,  1863,  under 
article  eleventh  of  the  warrant  to  see  what  action,  if  any,  the  town 
will  take  with  reference  to  a  proposition  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins 
Academy  inviting  the  town  to  unite  with  them  in  maintaining  a  free 
High  School  for  the  year  ensuing.  Voted  to  accept  the  proposition 
made  by  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  to  the  town. 

March  31st,  1863.  The  Trustees  voted  to  choose  a  committee  of  three 
to  make  arrangements  with  the  general  school  committee  of  the  town 
for  the  examination  of  persons  applying  for  admission  to  the  High 
School  and  other  matters  appertaining  thereto.  The  town  having 
accepted  the  proposition  made  by  the  Trustees,!.  R.  Davenport,  Levi 
Stockbridge  and  F.  Boimey  were  chosen. 


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April  8,  1864.  It  was  voted  that  the  Trustees  accept  the  proposi- 
tion of  the  town  to  continue  the  same  arrangements  respecting  the 
High  School  as  was  in  action  last  year.  The  committee  of  last  year 
was  reappointed  to  co-operate  with  the  General  Committee  of  the  town 
in  carrying  out  the  agreement. 

Nov.  20,  1864.  A  committee  of  the  Trustees  was  appointed  to 
consider  the  necessities  of  the  school  the  coming  season  with  reference 
to  furnishing  a  room  for  the  increasing  number  of  scholars.  This 
committee  reported  verbally,  Nov.  30,  and  a  vote  was  taken  that  an 
examination  be  held  at  the  opening  of  the  winter  term,  for  such  as 
present  themselves,  those  attaining  the  highest  rank  to  be  admitted 
first  and  so  on  by  rank  as  vacancies  occur  according  to  the  accommo- 
dations of  the  school-rooms. 

Voted  that  no  person  shall  be  considered  to  have  passed  t  xaiuina- 
tions  who  has  not  answered  correctly  fifty  per  cent,  of  the  questions 
given  him. 

Feb.  24,  1865.  It  was  voted  that  the  Trustees  propose  to  the  town 
that  if  the  town  will  provide  and  furnish  a  suitable  building,  and  keep 
it  in  repair,  they  will  sustain  a  High  School  free  of  expense  to  the 
town  for  such  scholars  as  may  be  able  to  pass  successfully  such  an 
examination  as  is  usually  required  for  admission  to  similar  schools  in 
other  towns. 

March  6,  1865.  The  Trustees  voted  to  assume  the  expenses  of  the 
Higll  School  under  the  expectation  that  a  building  would  be  in  readi- 
ness for  occupation  by  the  commencement  of  the  winter  term. 

At  the  annual  meeting  held  March  6,  1865,  under  the  article  14th 
of  the  warrant  "  To  see  if  the  town  will  accept  of  a  proposition  made 
by  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy*  by  which  they  propose  and 
agree  to  sustain  a  High  School,  free  of  expense  to  the  inhabitants  of 
the  town  of  Hadley,  provided  that  the  town  will  build,  furnish  and 
keep  in  repair  a  suitable  building,  and  act  anything  thereon." 

Art.  15.  To  see  if  the  town  will  continue  the  existing  arrange- 
ment with  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  for  maintaining  a  free 
High  School. 

Voted  to  accept  the  following  proposition  of  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins 
Academy.  [See  above.] 

Voted  to  build  a  building  for  a  High  School  the  ensuing  year. 

Voted  that  the  town  appropriate  the  sum  of  twelve  thousand  dollars  to 
build  a  building  for  a  High  School. 


*This  vote  of  the  Trustees  passed  Feb.  24,  1865.    See  record. 


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"  At  this  meeting  a  committee  of  five  was  appointed  to  procure  a  plan  for 
and  superintend  the  erection  of  the  building  for  a  High  School,  and  likewise 
procure  a  site,  and  empowered  to  purchase,  grade,  and  otherwise  prepare  and 
properly  lit  up  a  site  for  the  High  School  building,  at  an  expense  not  exceeding 
two  thousand  dollars. 

This  committee  nominated  by  a  committee  of  five  appointed  for  the 
purpose  by  the  moderator,  P.  S.  Williams,  consisted  of  P.  S.  Williams, 
John  A.  Morton,  L.  N.  Granger,  Dr.  F.  Bonney  and  F.  Edson. 

The  committee  found  difficulty  in  the  choice  of  a  site  acceptable  to 
all.  But  they  carefully  estimated  the  number  of  families  and  the 
number  of  scholars  in  each  of  the  several  districts  to  be  more  particu- 
larly accommodated  by  the  building  and  the  amount  of  travel  to  be 
performed  by  those  scholars.  They  were  unanimous  in  the  conclusion 
that  the  most  central  location  would  be  some  place  on  or  near  the  four 
corners,  near  the  town  hall.  Of  several  lots  examined,  the  committee 
chose  the  homestead  of  William  Blake  and  made  a  verbal  contract 
for  the  same.  But  before  the  deed  could  be  executed,  a  town  meeting 
was  called  for  May  4th,  u  to  see  if  the  town  will  reconsider  the  vote 
whereby  they  authorized  their  committee  to  locate  the  High  School 
building  and  act  anything  thereon."  It  was  voted  that  this  meeting 
instruct  the  committee  to  locate  the  High  School  building  on  Kellogg's 
corner,  with  one  acre  of  land,  provided  a  sum  above  two  thousand 
dollars  sufficient  to  furnish  the  site  be  raised  by  subscription,  within 
ten  days,  if  a  sufficient  sum  be  not  raised  within  the  specified  time  to 
secure  the  location  on  Kellogg's  corner,  then  to  locate  the  High  School 
building  on  the  east  end  of  the  lot  of  Geo.  H.  Gaylord's  home-lot,  one 
acre  to  be  presented  to  the  town  for  that  purpose  free  of  all  cost. 

At  a  town  meeting  held  May  19th,  voted  to  rescind  the  vote  whereby 
the  town  voted  at  a  town  meeting  held  May  the  4th,  1865,  to  locate 
the  High  School  building  on  Kellogg's  corner  or  on  the  land  of  George 
Gaylord. 

Voted  that  the  committee  be  instructed  to  locate  the  High  School  building 
on  the  corner  of  Win.  Blake's  home-lot. 

At  a  town  meeting  held  June  2nd,  1865. 

Voted  not  to  change  the  location  of  the  High  School  building  from  the 
corner  of  Wm.  Blake's  home  lot  to  the  east  end  of  Geo.  Gaylord's  home  lot. 

As  a  result  of  the  action  of  the  town,  individuals  offered  to  buy  the 
homestead  of  Edward  Stebbins  and  give  a  part  of  the  land  to  the 
town  to  enlarge  and  beautify  the  lot  and  make  it  more  convenient- 
March  5,  I860.  Voted  that  the  High  School  committee  purchase  the 
remainder  of  the  Stebbins  homestead  and  dispose  of  the  buildings  and  so 
much  of  the  land  as  is  not  necessary  for  the  High  School  house  lot. 


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At  this  date  negotiations  between  the  Town  and  trustees  were 
suspended.  The  vexed  question  of  site  being  in  such  wise  solved, 
the  building  committee  before  named  proceeded  to  contract  for  the 
erection  of  a  school  building  upon  the  spot  chosen. 

The  plan  of  the  building  was  drawn  by  Architect  Win.  F.  Pratt  of 
Northampton,  who  superintended  the  work  of  erection.  The  con- 
tractor was  Lauriston  Ware,  whose  bid  was  $11,750.  In  dimensions 
the  main  building  was  76  by  36  feet  with  two  transverse  wings,  30  by 
12  feet.  Height  of  the  lower  story  13  feet,  of  the  upper  story  15  feet.  • 
The  lower  story  was  divided  into  two  rooms,  separated  by  a  hall,  for 
the  use  of  the  town,  one  for  a  Grammar  and  one  for  an  Intermediate 
school.  The  upper  story  was  used  by  the  Trustees  for  their  school. 
The  main  school-room  is  the  full  size  of  the  second  floor.  In  the 
west  wing  is  a  recitation-room,  and  a  room  for  apparatus,  etc. 

This  building,  thus  provided  and  furnished,  was  ready  for  occu- 
pancy early  in  December,  1865.  In  these  quarters  the  school  has 
since  then  found  a  home  and  done  its  work.  The  cost  to  the  town  of 
the  building  and  its  furnishing  and  appointments,  as  shown  by  the 
report  of  the  building  committee  at  the  town  meeting  March  5,  1860, 
was  $15,882.30.  A  large  sum,  they  say,  and  of  necessity,  since  the 
building  itself  is  large  and  erected  at  a  time  of  greatly  enhanced  cost 
of  material  and  labor,  by  reason  of  an  inflated  currancy,  an  evil  inci- 
dent to  a  long  and  costly  civil  war. 

Under  the  plan  indicated  by  the  foregoing  action  of  the  town  of 
Hadley  and  the  Trustees  respectively,  Hopkins  Academy  began  its 
career  as  a  school  with  all  its  advantages  free,  for  the  first  time  in  its 
history,  to  all  scholars  in  the  town,  who  on  examination  should  be 
able  to  gain  admission.  Since  that  date  a  new  class  has  been  admitted 
each  succeeding  year,  of  varying  numbers,  with  a  three  year's  course 
of  study  open  to  them,  extended  later  to  four  years,  with  the  still 
further  advantage  of  post-graduate  study  when  desired. 


CHAPTER  XII. 


TIIF  PERIOD  OF  THE  SCHOOL'S  GREATEST  PROSPERITY. 

During  the  decade  from  1830  to"  1840  Hopkins  Academy  attained 
its  greatest  growth.  At  this  time  numbers  were  larger  than  before  or 
since.  Probably  the  corps  of  instruction  was  never  better.  Enthu- 
siasm in  study  was  the  reigning  spirit,  inspired  by  earnest  teachers 
and  furthered  by  the  attrition  of  bright  minds  brought  together  from 
many  places. 

Rev.  E.  Russell,  D.D.,  writing  of  the  school  as  it  was  in  1831, 
says.  "  The  scholars  to  me  wrere  always  very  pleasant  and  agreeable. 
Their  industry  was  untiring  and  with  scarcely  an  exception  successful 
and  satisfactory."  Of  one  pupil  he  writes,  u  He  was  always  modest, 
prompt,  accurate,  thorough.  It  made  and  left  its  impression  on  the 
whole  school." 

The  religious  influence  of  the  school  at  this  period  was  decided  and 
strong.  Many  young  people  began  the  Christian  life  in  connection 
with  the  school  who  have  since  done  eminent  service  in  the  line  of  the 
designs  and  wishes  of  Gov.  Hopkins.  All  pupils  were  required  to 
attend  church  regularly  every  Sunday.  A  weekly  Bible  lesson  was  a 
general  exercise  in  which  all  had  part.  This  was  sometimes  conducted 
so  as  to  be  of  inestimable  worth.  Teachers  and  pupils  met  together 
at  the  Academy  for  prayer  and  religions  conference.  All  who  would 
took  part  in  these  exercises,  and  some  of  the  older  pupils  did  so.  In 
seasons  of  more  than  usual  interest  there  was  sometimes  preaching  in 
the  Academy. 

Many  young  people  who  came  to  this  school  from  other  towns 
received  inspiration  and  impulse  towards  all  that  is  best  in  living, 
which  was  never  lost.  An  influence  went  out  through  these  and 
ivjiched  other  young  people,  who  never  enjoyed  these  advantages, 
kindling  hope  and  stimulating  high  ondenvor. 


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In  the  year  1835,  the  price  of  board,  including  room-rent  and 
washing  was  $1.50  a  week.  Price  of  tuition  $3.00  to  $3.50  a  quarter. 
Although  this  is  a  low  rate  of  tuition  it  was  in  many  cases  nearly  or 
quite  prohibitory.  Not  a  few  of  the  young  people  of  Hadley,  though 
the  desire  was  strong,  could  not  enter  the  Academy,  and  more  entered 
for  only  a  short  time,  perhaps  one  quarter  or  even  a  half.  The  cost 
of  tuition  for  a  family  of  average  size  for  a  series  of  years  was  felt  as 
no  light  burden.  When  this  barrier  was  removed  later  and  the  school 
was  open  to  all  alike,  there  was  occasion  for  joy,  that  abides  to  this 
day. 

The  school  was  inexpensive  as  compared  with  the  present.  Rates 
of  tuition  were  low.  The  same  is  true  of  board  and  incidental 
expenses. 

The  question  has  interest,  whence  the  Academy  derived  its  patron- 
age ?  Something  in  the  way  of  answer  may  be  learned  from  catalogues 
of  the  institution  published  at  different  times.  The  first  of  these 
bearing  date  Feb.,  1818,  has  the  names  of  99  students.  Of  these 
five  were  from  other  states  than  Massachusetts.  One  from  N.  Y., 
one  from  Conn.,  one  from  N.  H.,  two  from  Vt.,  seventeen  from 
Hampshire  Co.  out  of  Hadley,  eight  from  Mass,  out  of  Hampshire 
Co.,  the  remainder,  65  from  Hadley. 

On  the  catalogue  of  Aug.,  1818,  are  found  the  names  of  141  pupils. 
Of  this  number,  thirteen  were  from  out  of  Massachusetts,  nine  from 
Vt.,  one  from  Conn.,  two  from  N.  Y.,  one  from  Georgia,  sixty  from 
other  towns  in  Massachusetts,-  73  in  all ;  sixty-eight,  or  less  than  half 
that  number  from  Hadley. 

On  the  catalogue  of  Feb.,  1819,  are  118  names,  thirteen  from  out 
of  Mass.,  five  from  Vt.,  two  from  N.  H.,  four  from  Conn.,  two  from 
N.  Y.,  eighteen  out  of  Hampshire  Co.  in  Mass.,  sixty-one  out  of 
Hadley,  the  rest,  fifty-eight,  from  Hadley. 

The  catalogue  for  the  year  ending  Nov.  17,  1835,  shows  the  whole 
number  of  pupils  to  have  been  271,  gentlemen  150,  ladies  121.  Of 
these  twenty-one  were  from  out  of  Massachusetts,  from  nine  different 
states,  one  from  Canada  and  one  from  the  island  of  Ceylon,  51  from 
Mass,  out  of  Hampshire  Co.,  76  from  Hampshire  Co.  out  of  Hadley, 
123  from  Hadley,  148  from  out  of  Hadley.  These  148  all  paid  tuition 
and  board  as  well,  and  it  seems  hard  to  see  how  their  coming  hither 
to  enjoy  these  advantages  should  not  enhance  their  value  to  the 
dwellers  in  the  town  and  be  in  other  respects  promotive  of  their  well- 
being.  It  was  not  far  from  this  time,  however,  that  a  different 


135 

feeling  prevailed,  finding  expression  in  a  suit  at  law  in  the  supreme 
court. 

For  the  year  ending  Nov.  21,  1837,  whole  number  of  pupils  286, 
gentlemen  154,  ladies  132  ;  winter  term  111,  spring  131,  summer  84, 
fall  109  ;  in  the  languages  57.  From  out  of  Mass.  27,  N.  H.  four, 
Vt.  one,  Conn,  nine,  N.  Y.  six,  Del.  one,  Ohio  one,  Ga.  one,  Va.  one, 
Fla.  one,  Ala.  two,  ten  different  states.  Fifty-one  from  Mass,  out 
of  Hampshire  Co.,  54  from  Hampshire  Co.  out  of  Hadley,  154  from 
Hadley.  From  this  lime  on  numbers  gradually  grew  less  so  that  at 
the  beginning  of  the  fall  term  in  1842  there  were  but  twenty-seven 
pupils.  There  was  soon  rapid  increase,  however,  though  the  decline 
in  numbers  was  permanent  from  this  time  on. 

During  this  period  a  definite  coitrse  of  study  was  prescribed  only 
for  students  who  proposed  to  enter  college.  These  must  of  course 
take  the  studies  required  in  order  for  admission  to  the  higher  institutions. 

For  other  pupils  the  range  of  elective  studies  was  wide.  The 
attempt  to  teach  so  many  branches  must  have  had  in  some  instances, 
the  result  of  superficial  mental  discipline  and  attainment.  So  much 
was  attempted  that  too  little  was  done  to  best  purpose.  Too  few  sought 
to  teach  too  many  pupils,  too  many  things  to  be  sure  of  the  best  work 
from  teacher  or  pupil.  Both  did  what  they  could  under  such  limita- 
tions. The  spirit  that  reigned  in  both  was  excellent.  The  best 
results  were  fruits  of  character  whose  worth  is  beyond  estimation. 
These  teachers  had  noble  ideals  with  which  they  failed  not  to  inspire 
appreciative,  sympathetic,  responsive  pupils,  such  as  many  of  them 
were,  as  is  plain  from  the  record  they  have  made. 

The  same  spirit  in  good  degree  has  prevailed  since  this  period  and 
there  is  assured  hope  that  it  will  continue  and  grow,  as  it  should.  But 
the  pupils  of  the  time  under  notice  were  man}7  of  them  mature  in 
years,  gaining  such  education  as  they  could,  with  difficulty  and  costly 
sacrifice,  and  hence  they  were  stimulated  to  make  the  most  of  their 
.opportunities  and  of  themselves. 


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CHAPTER  XITL 


TRUSTEES  OF  HOPKINS  ACADEMY.  ROLL  OF  TEACHERS. 
ROLL  OF  HONOR, 

TRUSTEES    OF    HOPKINS    ACADEMY    FROM    ITS    INCORPORATION  TO 
THE    PRESENT    TIME. 

Original  members  who  applied  to  the  General  Court  for  an  act  of 
incorporation,  and  are  named  in  the  charter. 

Seth  Smith,  1796,  died  June  30,  1828. 
William  Porter,  1796,  died  Nov.  6,  1847. 
Jacob  Smith,  1804,  died  Apr.  5,  1852. 
William  Dickinson,  1812,  died  March  15,  1849. 
Moses  Porter,  1815,  died  May  22,  1854. 

ELECTED.  RETIRED. 

Rev.  Dan  Huntington,  June  4,  1817  died  1864. 

Rev.  John  Woodbridge,  D.D.,         "         "  Feb.  22,  1831 

Rev.  Joseph  Lyman,  D.D.,     June  6,  1818  died  1826 

of  Hatfield,  President. 
Hon.  Isaac  C.  Bates  June  6,  1817  Nov.  20,  1828 

of  Northampton, 
Rev.  Vinson  Gould,  Sept.  6,  1821  Feb.  23,  1836 

of  Southampton, 
Rev.  Nathan  Perkins,  Sept.  6,  1821  Nov.  17,  1835 

of  Amherst,  President. 
Hon.  Jonathan  H.  Lyman,  retirement  not  recorded. 

of  Northampton, 
Hon.  Joseph  Strong,  Esq.,  Nov.  20,  1828 

of  South  Hadley, 
Rev.  Henry  Lord,  May  17,  1825  May  21,  1834 

of  Williamsburg, 

Dea.  Nathaniel  Coolidge,  Jr.,    May  17,  1825  died  1835 

Rev.  JaredB.Waterbury,D.D.  Feb.  19,  1828  Aug.  16,  1831 

of  Hatfield, 


137 

ELECTED.  RETIRED. 

Rev.  Horace  B.  Chapiu,  Nov.  20,  1828  retirement  not  recorded 

of  South  Amherst, 
Rev.  IchabodS.  Spencer,  D.D.  Nov.  20,  1828  Aug.  19,  1834 

of  Northampton, 

Muj.  Sylvester  Smith,  Nov.  20,  1828  declined  service. 

Rev.  Levi  Pratt,  Hatfield,         Aug.  17,  1830  May  21,  1834 

Dea.  Elisha  Dickinson,  Aug.  17,  1830  declined  service. 

Rev.  John  Brown,  D.  D.,          Nov.  23,  1831  died  in  1839 

President,  from  Nov.  17,  1835  to  March,'  1839. 

Capt.  Elijah  Smith,  May  21,  1834  June,  1861 

Mr.  James  B.  Porter,  May  21,  1834 

Elected  again  May  19,  1835. 
Rev.  Joseph  Penney,  D.  D.,     Aug/19,  1834  Feb.  23,  1836 

of  Northampton, 
Rev.  John  Todd,  D.  D.,  Aug.  19,  1834  retirement  not  recorded. 

of  Northampton, 
Mr.  James  B.  Porter,  May  19,  1835  Nov.  16,  1868 

Treasurer  from  1835-1862. 

Mr.  Dudley  Smith,  May  29,  1835  May  27,  1858 

Rev.  Joseph  D.  Condit,  Nov.  17,  1835         died  Sept.  13,  1847. 

of  South  Hartley, 
Rev.  Win.  Tyler,  Nov.  22,  1836  Nov.  21,  1842 

of  South  Hartley  Canal, 

Rev.  John  Ferguson,  Whately,  Nov.  20,1838  retirement  not  recorded. 
Rev.  David  L.  Hunn  Aug.  20,  1839  retirement  not  recorded. 

of  North  Hadley,  President  from  Nov.,  '39-'41. 

Rev.  Joseph  W.  Curtis,  Nov.  19,  1839  died  1857 

Rev.  Francis  Danforth,  Feb.  18,  1840  retirement  not  recorded. 

Den.  Chas.  P.  Hitchcock,          Nov.  16,  1841  declined  service. 

Dea.  Simeon  Dickinson,  Nov.  16,  1841  Dec.  14,  1864 

Rev.  John  Woodbridge,  Feb.  18,  1842  Nov.  22,  1859 

President  Nov.  20,  1842  to  Nov.  22,  1859. 
Rev.  Warren  H.  Beaman,         Aug.  12,  1845  Nov.  20,  1873 

of  North  Hadley,  Pres.  Nov.  22,  '59  to  Dec.  1,  '65. 
Capt.  Oliver  Warner,  Nov.  18,  1845  died  June  6,  1850 

Rev.  Rowland  Ayres,  Feb.  15,  1848 

President  since  Dec.  1,  1865. 

Dea.  Chas.  P.  Hitchcock,  Feb.  20,  1849  died  1867 

Mr.  William  P.  Dickinson,         Aug.  17,  1852  March  7,  1863 

Dea.  George  Dickinson,  Aug.  17,  1882  died  Aug.,  1889 

Rev.  Franklin  Tuxbury,  Nov.  19,  1857  March  7,  1863 


138 

ELECTED.  RETIRE  1). 

Mr.  Jesse  R.  Davenport,  Nov.  19,  1857  Nov.  16,  1868 

Franklin  Bonney,  M.  1).,  Nov.  19,  1857 

Hon.  Levi  Stockbridge,  April  1,  1862 

Mr.  Theodore  G.  Himtington,    April  1,  1862  Dec.  16,  1877 

Eleazar  Porter,  Esq.,  April  1,  1862  died  April,  1<S86 

Treasurer  from  1862-1878. 
Mr.  Horace  Cook,  April  1,  1862 

Rev.  E.  S.  Dwigkt,  D.  D.,        Nov.  22,  1864 

P.  S.  Williams,  Esq.,  Nov.  22,  1864  April  15,  1870 

L.  N.  Granger,  Prior  to  1865  1876 

Record  of  election  failed  to  be  made, 
John  C.  Hammond,  Esq.,         Nov.  15,  1870 

S.  C.  Wilder,  Esq.,  Nov.  15,  1870  died  1S7;; 

Charles  E.  Lamson,  -  Nov.  15,  1870         died  March  17,  1879 

John  A.  Morton,  Nov.  15,  1870  Nov.  27,  1878 

Rev.  James  M.  Bell,  Nov.  20,  1873    retirement  not  recorded. 

Oliver  E.  Smith,  Nov.  20,  1873  May  5,  1883 

Mr.  Win.  P.  Porter,  Nov.  17,  1876 

Treasurer  since  Nov.  22,  1878. 
Mr.  John  N.  Pierce,  Nov.  17,  1877 

Mr.  Charles  Cook,  Nov.  17,  1877 

Dea.  Rodney  Smith.  Nov.  17,  1877  died  Feb.  2,  1890. 

Rev.  John  W.  Lane,  Sept.  2,  1878 

Dea.  Baxter  E.  Bardwell,         Nov.  20,  1885 
Rev.  John  S.  Bayne,  Nov.  23,  1888 

Of  the  sixty-three  names  in  this  list,  sixteen  only  have  been  chosen 
from  out  of  town.  Since  the  election  of  Rev.  John  Ferguson,  Nov. 
20,  1838,  no  one  has  been  chosen  out  of  Hadley. 

PRESENT  BOARD  OF  TRUSTEES. 

Rev.  Rowland  Ayres,  D.D.,  1848 

Franklin  Bonney,  M.  D.,  1857 

Horace  Cook,  Esq.,  1862  ( 

Rev.  F:.  S.  Dwight,  D.  D.,  1864 

John  C.  Hammond,  F^sq.,  1870 

William  P.  Porter,  Esq.,  1876 
Dea.  John  N.  Pierce,                                  '  1877 

Charles  Cook,  Esq.,  1877 

Rev.  John  W.  Lane,  1878 

Dea.  Baxter  E.  Bardwell,  1885 

Rev.  John  S.  Bayne,  1888 


139 


OFKICERS    OF    THE    BOARD. 

Rev.  Rowland  Ayres,  D.  D.,  President. 
Rev.  E.  8.  Dwight,  D.  D.,  Vice- President. 
Franklin  Boniicy,  M.  D.,  Secretary. 
William  P.  Porter,  Esq.,  Treasurer. 
Charles  Cook,  Flsq.,  Auditor. 

Rev.   R.   Ayres,   D.  D.,   F.   Bonney,   M.  D.,   J.   C.   Ham- 
iiiuiid,  Esq.,  Prudential  Committee. 

ROLL    OF    TEACHERS    IN    HOPKINS    ACADEMY. 

The  history  of  the  school  is  made  up  largely  of  the  names,  work, 
and  record  of  its  teachers.     This  list  of  honored  names  is  here  given. 

PRINCIPALS. 


Rev.  Dan  Huntington,  Y.C.  171)4, 
Rev.  Worthington  Smith,  D.  D.,  W.  C. 

1816,  Pres.  U.  Vt.  and  Trustee. 
Oliver  S.  Taylor,M.D.,  died  March,  '85, 

aged  100. 

Rev.  John  A.  Nash,  A.C.,  1824 

George  Nichols,  Y.  C.,  1824,  Rector  of 
Hopkins  Grammar  Sch.,  New  Haven, 
taught,  Springfield,  d.  '41 ,  salary  $600. 

Timothy  Dwight,  A.C.  1827,  tutor, 

Rev. Ezekiel Russell,  D.I).,  A.C. '29,  tutor, 
minister  N.  Adams,  Springfield  Olivet 
church,  and  Holbrook,  Mass. 

Rev.  Lewis  Sabin,  D.D.  A.C.  '31,  Trus- 
tee, minister,  Templeton,  died  1873. 

Rev.  Amos  S.  Cheesebrough,D.D.,  Y.C., 
member  Corporation  Y.  C.,  minister, 
Chester  and  Glastonbury,  Conn.,  and 
elsewhere. 

Rev.  Jesse  G  .D.  Stearns,  A.C.  '36,  tutor, 
minister,  Billerica,  and  elsewhere, 
died  1882. 

Rev.  Mortimer  Blake,  D.D.,A.C.1835, 

died  1884. 

John  P.  Sanderson,  A.C.  1839, 
Cyrus  Holmes,  could  not  have  been  em- 
ployed more  than  a  few  weeks.  Paid 
to  Jan.  20,  $48.50. 


CAME. 

Dec.  17,  1817 
Dec.,  1820 


WENT. 

1820 
Feb.,  1822 


Feb.  22,  1822  May,  1826 


May,  1826 
1827 


1829 
March,  1830 

1831 
1835 


1836 

1837 

1839 
1840 


Nov.,  1827 
1829 


1830 
Sept.,  1831 

Aug.,  1835 
1836 

1837 

1839 
Jan.,  1840 


140 


Rev.  Horace  Hutchinson,  A.C.  '39.  From 
the  Treasurer's  account  it  is  inferred 
that  Mr.  H.  was  in  charge  of  the  school 
one  quarter,  ending  May  19. 

Miss  Almira  Henshavv,  in  charge  one 
quarter,  ending  Aug.  18,  inferred  from 
books  of  Treasurer. 

O.  Fisher,  Y.C.  1836, 

Isaac  Witherell,  3  quarters, 

Miss  Mindwell  Woodbridge  had  charge 
one  quarter,  ending  in  August,  with 
very  few  pupils. 

Rev.  Addison  Ballard,  D.D.,  W.C.  1842, 
tutor ;  Morris  Prof.  Rhetoric,  Latin 
and  Math.,  Ohio  Univ.  ;  Prof.  Latin 
and  Astron.,  Marietta;  Prof.  Chris- 
tian Greek  and  Latin,  and  Prof.  Mor. 
Phil,  and  Rhet.,  LaFayette  Coll. 

Rev.  Henry  B.  Hosford,  W.  C.,  tutor, 
minister,  Sunderland,  Prof.  Int.  Mor. 
Phil,  and  Rhet.,  Western  Reserve  Coll. 

Rev.  Henry  K.  Edson,  A.C.  '44,  Princi- 
pal Denmark  Academy,  Prof,  in  Iowa 
College. 

Rev.  Henry  Lobdell,  M.D.,  A.  C.  1849, 
missionary  to  Mosul,  Turkey. 

Marshall  Henshaw,  D.D.,  LL.D.,  A.  C. 
'45,  tutor,  principal  Pinkerton  Acad., 
Derry,N.H.,  Dummer  Acad.,  Byfield, 
and  Williston  Sem.,  Prof.  Math.  Rut- 
gers Coll.,  lecturer,  Nat.  Phil.,  A.  C. 

Rev.  Lucius  D.  Chapin,  A.C.  '51,  Prof. 
Mor.  and  Intell.  Phil.,  Univ.  Mich., 
Chanc.  and  Prof.  Ment.  Philosophy, 
Ingh.  Univ.  One  quarter. 

Rev.  Wm.  F.  Avery,  A.C.  '50,  minister 
Huntington  and  Lanesboro,  one  quarter 

Rev.  C.  V.  Spear,  A.  C.  '46,  minister  at 
Sudbury,  Prin.  Maplewood  Institute, 
Founder  of  Spear  Library,  Prof,  at 
Obeiiin,  College,  O. 

Augustus  H.  Buck,  A.C.  '49,  Prof.  Greek 
and  German,  Boston  Univ. 

Reuben  M.  Benjamin,  LL.D.,  A.C.  '53, 
tutor,  Judge  county  court,  111.,  Prof. 
Law  and  Real  property,  111.  Wesl.  U. 


CAME. 

1840 


WENT. 

May  19,  1840 


1840      Aug.  18,  1840 


1840  or '41 
Sept.,  1841 
1842 


1842 


May  19,  1841 

May,  '42, 

Aug.,  1842 

1843 


1843 


1844 


1844 


LSI'.) 


1849,  one  quarter  1849 


1849 


l<Sf>0 


1851, 


1851 


1852 


1853 


1850 


1851 


1851 


1852 


1853 


1854 


141 


CAME. 

.Jesse  R.   Davenport,    A.   C.   '51,  Prin.  1854 

Am.  Aciul.,  Prin.  High  Schools,  Ox- 
ford and  Woonsocket,  R.  I. 

Cluiiies  A.  Chandler,  A.  C.  '66,  Editor  1867 

Boston  Herald. 

Rev.  Herbert  J.  Cook,  A.C.  '69,  minister  1869 

Coldwater,  Mich.,  and  Dayton,  O. 

Geo.H. White,  A.C.  '70,  instructor  A.C.,  1870 

Prof.  Preparatory  Department  O.  C. 

Walter  G.'  Mitchell,  W.C.  '70,  principal  1873 

High  School,  Winstcd,  Conn. 

W.  W.  Mitchell,  W.  C.  '39,  Prin.  High  1874 

Schools  Northampton  and  Chicopee, 
Mass.  House  Rep.  1882. 

Edward  Ayres,  A.  C.  '78,  teacher  Lake  1878 

Forest  Acad.,  111.,  instructor  in  Latin 
A.C.,  principal  High  School,  Orange, 
principal  High  School  and  Supt.  of 
schools,  Warren,  Mass.,  Supt.  of 
schools,  La  Fayette,  Ind. 

George  Sherman,  A.  C.  '79,  Prin.  High  1880 

School,  Winchester,  N.  H. 

Edmund  P.  Barker,  A.C.  '76,  Prin.  Acad.  1881 

Dudley,  Prin.  High  Sell.,  Swampscott.  . 

AVilliam  Orr,  Jr.,  A.  C.  '83,  Prin.  Smith  1883 

Acad.,  Hatfield,  teacher  of  Science 
Springfield  High  School.  ' 

Edward  A.  Baker,  A.C.  '84, 

Francis  J.  Heavens,  A.C.  '84,  principal 
High  School  Enfield,  Ct.,  Brookfield, 
Mass.,  principal  High  Sell,  and  Supt. 
of  schools,  Wallingford,  Conn. 

Francis  L.    Palmer,    A.  C.  '85,    Theol.  1885 

student, 

Nathaniel  F.  Wilcox,  W.  C.  1886 

Daniel  W.  Rogers,  A.  C.  '87,  1887 

Elmer  Case,  B.  U.  '84,  1888 

ASSISTANT    TE  ACHEIIS . 

Giles  C.  Kellogg,  Esq.,  Y.  C.  1800,  1817 

taught  at  intervals  afterwards,  as  late 
as  1831. 

Miss  Sally  Williston,  preceptress,  1817 

Miss  Sophia  Mosely,  preceptress,  1818 


WENT. 

1867 


F869 
1869 
1873 

Jan.,  1874 
1878 

1880 


1881 
1883 

1885 


1883,  part  of  one  term 
1883      one  term,  1884 


1886 

1887 

1887 


1826 


1818 
1819 


142 

CAME.  WENT. 

Miss  Sarah  Whitney,  preceptress,  1820                        1821 

m.  Henry  Marsh. 

Miss  Mary  W.  Fiske,  preceptress,  1821                        1822 

Mise  Elizabeth  P.  Huntington,    taught  1821 

smaller  children, 

Miss   Mary   Ann   Little,    taught   smaller  1821 

children,  m.  Rev.  Worthington  Smith, I). D. 

Miss  Eliza  Merrill,  1822                        1822 

Miss  Strong,  182;)                         1823 

Miss  Dolly  Blair,  m.  Geo.  Nichols,  1824                        1829 

Charles  L.  Strong,  A.  C.  '26,  1827                        1827 

Miss  Emily  H.  Williams,  preceptress,  1829                        1830 

Rev.  Win.  F.  Nelson,  A.  C.  '29,  Prof.  1829                        1829 

Theol.  Richmond  Coll.,  Prof.  Bibl.  Lit. 

West.  Bapt.  Theol.  lust.,  Covington, 

Pres.  Minn.  Central  Univ. 

Miss  Mary  Dwight,  preceptress,  1829                        18:50 

Miss  Louisa  S.  Billings,  preceptress,  1830                        1835 

m.  Rev.  Ezekiel  Russell,  D.I). 

Aaron  B.  Hall,  A.  B.,  1830                        1831 

Miss  Louisa  Packard,  'l  831                        1 8:5 1 

Arnold  Hannum,  1831                        1831 

Wm.  Zephaniah  Stewart,  LL.D.,  A.  C.  1832                       1832 

'33,  Judge  Supreme  Court,  Ind. 

Rev.  E.  W.  Bullard,  minister  Royalston,  1832                        1833 

Rev.  Adiel  Harvey,  A.  C.  '32,   "  1832                        is;};', 

Miss  Mary  W.  Billings,  m.  Rev.  Rob't  l<s:52                        18:52 

O.  Dwight,  missionary  to  India. 

Miss  Abigail  Clark,  1832                        1832 

Miss  Lucy  Ann  Brown,  l«s:>:>                       1833 

Rev.  Amos   Bullard,  A.  C.   '33,  tutor,  1833                        1833 

minister,  Barre,  Mass. 

Miss  Lucretia  Porter,  1834                        1834 

Miss  Proctor,                                                 .  1834                        1834 

Miss  Thankful  Murdock,  preceptress,  1S35                        1838 

Chauncey  Howard,  A.  C.  '35,  lawyer,  1834                        1835 

Rev.  S.  W.  Banister,  A.  C.  '35,  1835                        1835 

Rev.  Mortimer  Blake,  D.D.,  later  Prin.,  1835                        1835 

Rev.  David  Caldwell,  A.  C.  '37,  1835                        1835 

Rev.  Roswell  D.  Hitchcock,  D.D.,LL.D.,  1835                        1835 

A.  C.  '30,  tutor,  Trustee,   Prof.  Nat. 

and  Rev.  Religion,  Bowdoin  College, 

Pres.    and   Prof.  Eccl.  Hist.,    Union 

Theol.  Sem. 


143 

CAMK.  WENT. 

Rev.  Clms.  C.  Corss,  A.  C.  '30,  ls;M  1834 
Rev.  Samuel  Hopkins  Emery,  A.  C.  '34, 

minister  Taunton,  1834  1834 

Miss  Mary  D.  Smith,  1835  1835 

Miss  Abigail  Clark,  assistant  pupil,  1835  1835 

KYv.  Austin  Isham,  Y.  C.  '36,  !*:'><;  1836 

Lycortas  L.  Bruer,  M.  1),,  A.  C.  '36,  is:',r,  1836 

KYv.  Jesse  K.  Bragg,  A.  C.  '38,  1836  1836 

Horace  T.  Blake,  A.  C.  '38,  ls:5C,  1836 

Rev.  David  Andrews,  A.  C.  '36,  1*36  1836 

Miss  Mary  Hooker,  1836  1837 

Miss  Sarah  P.  Coolidge,  preceptress,  1S;>7  1837 

Rev.  Samuel  A.  Taylor,  A.  C.  '37,v  1837  1837 

Rev.   Asa    Mann,  A.  C.   '38,  minister,  is;', 7 

Hardwick  and  Exeter,  N.  H. 

James  O.  Pratt,  1837  1837 

Rev.  Clms.  Lord,  A.  C.  '38,  minister  at  1837  1837 

Whately  and  Buckland. 

Miss  Sarah  A.  Smith,  1837  1837 

Miss  Lucy  B.  Gay  lord,  assistant  pupil,  1839 

Miss  Mary  A.  Crossett,        "            "  1839 

Watson  Loud,  M.D. ,  teacher  Chirography,  1837  1839 

Miss  Hannah  B.  Church,  preceptress,  1838  1839 

Rev.  Henry  Seymour,  A.C.  '38,  minister  1838  1838 

Deer  field,  Hawley. 

Jonathan  B.  Marshall,  A.  C.  '38,  1838  1838 

Clms.  E.Washburn,M.D.,  A.C.  '38,  tutor,  1838  1838 

Miss  Mary  A.  Reed,  1838  1838 

Miss  Mary  Clark,  preceptress,  183!) 

Rev.  Horace  Hutchinson,  A.  C.  '39,  1839  1840 

John  P.  Sanderson,  A.  C.  '39,  183!)  1839 

Rev.  Alden  B.  Bobbins,  D.I).,  A.C.  '39,  ls:W  1839 

minister,  one  of  the  "  Iowa  Hand." 

James  A.  Taylor,  A.  C.  '39,  1S;',D  1839 

Miss  Jane  A.  Cook,  assistant  pupil,  is,0,!)  1839 

Miss  Emily  Pomeroy,  assistant  pupil,  1839  1839 

m.  Rev.  David  Eastman. 

Rev.  Elijah  H.  Bonney,  A.C.  '39,  minis-  1840  1840 

terPawlet,  Yt.,  ;  Vernon  Centre,  N.Y.  ; 

Lenox,  N.  Y.,  and  Clarkson,  N.  Y. 

Miss  Almira  Henshaw,  1840  1841 
19 


144 

CAME. 

Miss  Mind  well  Woodbridge,  1841 

Rev.  Henry  B.  Hosford,  W.C.  '43,  1842 

Miss  Train,  sister  of  Hon.  Cbas  R.  Train,  1  SI :} 

Attorney  General  of  Mass. 
Rev.  Theron  H.  Hawks,  D.D.,  W.C.,  1S4:1, 

'44,  minister  West  Springfield,  Tnst. 

Un.  Theol.  Seminary,  trustee  West- 
ern Reserve,  Trustee  Marietta. 
Miss  Louisa  A.  Hosford,  1S4:> 

Miss  Harriet  A.  Hinsdale,  preceptress,  1844 

m.  Rev.  Henry  L.  Hubbell,  D.D. 
Rev.  Chas.  V.  Spear,  A.C.  '46,  1844 

Jos.  P.  Dowse,  A.  C.  '46,  1845 

Rev.  Chas.  N.  Williams,  W.  C.,  184(5 

Miss  Rebecca  M.  Woodbridge,  m.  Judge  1846 

E.  S.  Willliams. 
Miss  Joanna  Stan  wood,  m.  Rev.  Francis  1846 

V.  Tenney. 

Hanson  L.  Read,  A.C.  '48,  .       1S4-S 

Miss  Susan  A.  Woodbridge,  1848 

Rev.  John  A.  Seymour,  A.C.  '49,  1840 

Rev.  Henry  Lobdell,  M.D.,  missionary,  1849 

A.  B.  C.  F.  M.,  to  Mosul,   Turkey, 

acting  principal. 

Mrs.  Francis  J.  Henshaw  preceptress,  1849 

Miss  Miranda  Smith,  »  1850 

Mr.  Augustus  Whitaker,  1850 

Horace  M.  Smith,  1850 

J.  Edwin  Whitaker,  B.  U.,  1849 

L.  M.  Morton,  teacher  of  penmanship,  1850 

Hon.  John  E.  Sanford,  A.  C.  '51,  tutor, 

Trustee,  Speaker  Mass.  House  Rep. 
L.  C.  Chapin,  M.D.,  Y.C.  '52,  tutor, 
John  Smith,  A.  C.  '49, 
Anton  Ruppaner,  M.  D.,  teacher  French 

and  Music. 
Miss  Abby  C.  Mayhew,  m.  Rev.  David 

Temple  Packard, 
George  E.  Dudley,  A.  C.  '52, 
John  F.  Buerger,  teacher  Music,  French 

and  German, 
Mrs.  C.  L.  Buck,  1852 


WENT. 

1841 
1843 
1843 

1844 


1841 
1846 

1844 
1X45 
I«s4f) 
1846 

1849 

1S48 
1S4S 
1849 
1849 

1850 
1850 
1850 
1850 
1850 
1850 
1850  one  term,  1851 

1850  one  term,  1851 

1851  one  term,  1851 
1851          1852 

1851 


1852   one  term,  1852 
1852          1858 


1852 


145 

Miss  Abby  P.  Smith, 

Rev.  Geo.  N.  Webber,  D.I).,  A.  C.  '52, 

tutor,  Prof.  Int.  and  Mor.  Phil.,  Mid- 

dlebury,  Coll. 
Miss  Perry, 

Miss  Sarah  W.  Powers, 
Rev.  Daniel  Phillips,  A.  C.  '56, 
Miss  Elizabeth  F.  Tobey, 
Miss  Felicia  H.  Emerson, 
Miss  Cynthia  M.  Pierce, 
Miss  Juliette  Clark, 
Miss    Cornelia    C.    Barrows,     m.    Rev. 

Lyman  Bartlett,  missionary,  A.  B.  C. 

F.  M.,  to  Turkey, 
Miss  Clarissa  Smith, 
Miss  Charlotte  C.  Haskell,  teacher  Vas- 

sar  College,  m.  J.  Edwards  Porter, 
Miss  Eliza  C.  Haskell,  m.   Edward  P. 

Frisbee,  D.  D.,  Pres.  Wells  College, 

Aurora,  N.  Y. 
Miss  Hill, 

Miss  Laura  R.  Johnson, 
Miss  Lucy  A.  Cook, 
Miss  Maria  L.  Pasco, 
Miss  Martha  R.  Gay  lord, 
Miss  Isabella  S.  Nash, 
Mrs.  Martha  L.  Bell, 
Miss  Abby  P.  Smith, 
Miss  Augusta  A.  Porter, 
Miss  Emma  W.  Beam  an, 
Miss  Emma  C.  Bardwell, 
Miss  Mary  Reed, 
Miss  Gene  vie  ve  Cooley, 
Miss  Edith  J.  Ayres,  Smith  Coll.  '82, 
Miss  Clara  W.  Clark,     "          "    '88, 
Miss  Alice  C.  Dickinson,  Westlield 

State  Normal  School. 


CAME.  WENT. 

1852          1854 
1852   one  term,  1852 


1853 
1853 
1854 
1854 
1854 
1855 
1855 
1855 


1856 
1856 

1857 

1858 
1858 
1861 
1863 
1865 
1867 
1868 
1869 
1872 
1873 
1880 
1885 
1886 
l-s<s7 

1  <S«S<S 

1888 


one  term,  1853 
1853 
1854 

one  term,  1854 

Fall  term 

1855 

one  term,  1855 

one  term,  1855 

1857 
1859 

1857 


1858 
1860 
1862 
1865 
1866 
1868 
1869 

1872,  '73, '78 
1873 
1877 
1886 

1887 

one  term,  1  ss.s 
one  term,  l«ss,s 

1890 


1890. 


COUPS    OF    INSTRUCTION,    SUMMER    TERM, 

Elmer  Case,  Principal. 
Miss  Mary  Reed,  )  A    . 

-»  r  •  A  !•  ~i^        T"\*      i    •  f    ^Aoolk>  Lclll  Lo « 

Miss  Alice  E.  Dickinson, 


146 

THE  ROLL  OF  HONOR. 

These  pages  have  taken  note  of  the  desire  of  Gov.  Hopkiusth  at  the 
money  given  by  him  might  be  for  the  encouragement  of  hopeful  youth 
in  the  way  of  learning  for  the  service  of  the  country  in  future  times. 
The  following  roll  of  honor  contains  the  names  of  such  pupils  of 
Hopkins  Academy  as  have  been  in  various  ways  conspicuous  in  ren- 
dering such  service. 

NAMES    OF    PUPILS    OF    HOPKINS    ACADEMY    WHO    BECAME    MINISTERS 
OF    THE    GOSPEL. 

Noah  Cook. 

Parsons  Cook,  D.  I).,  W.  C.  '22,  minister  at  Ware  and  Lynn,  Mass.  ; 

editor  Puritan  Recorder. 

Jeremiah  Porter,  W.C.  '22,  home  missionary  ;  army  chaplain. 
Tertius  Clark,  D.D.,  Y.  C.  '24. 
Bela  B.  Edwards,  A.  C.  '24,  D.  D.,  tutor,   trustee,  Prof.   Sac.   Lit. 

Andover  Seminary. 
Sylvester  Cook,  A.  C.  '25. 
William  P.  Huntington, 

John  A.  Nash,  A.  C.  '25,  principal  Hopkins  Academy,  etc. 
Samuel  Hopkins  Riddle,  1818,  Y.  C.  '23. 
Horace  Smith. 

Elijah  C.  Bridgman,  D.D.,  A.  C.  '26,  missionary  to  China. 
Dyer  Ball,  M.D.,  missionary  to  Singapore  and  China,  Canton. 
Mason  Ball. 
Sylvester  Woodbridge. 
Jahlael  Woodbridge. 
Lucien  Farmham,  A.  C.  '27. 
Preserved  Smith,  A.  C.  '28. 
Fordyce  M.  Hubbard,  W.  C.  '2.S,  D.  I).,  tutor  at  W.  C.  ;  Episcopal 

minister  ;  Prof.  Latin,  Language  and  Literature,  Univ.  N. Carolina. 
Columbus  Shumway,  minister  Townsend,  Mass. 
Martin  Cushman. 
Charles  C.  Corss,  A.  C.  '30. 
Lewis  Sabin,  D.I).,  A.  C.  '31,  trustee,  principal  Hopkins  Academy  ; 

minister  at  Templeton,  Mass. 

John  Dunbar,  W.  C.  '32,  missionary  to  Pawnee  Indians. 
William  Mason  Richards,  W.  C.  '32. 
Amos  Bullard,  A.  C.  '33,  tutor,  minister  at  Barre,  Mass. 
George   C.  Partridge,  A.  C.  '33,   tutor,   minister  at  Greenfield  and 

elsewhere. 


147 

Clinton  Clark,  A.   C.   '35,  tutor,   minister  tit    Pompey,  N.   Y.,  and 

Ridgeiield,  Conn. 
Justus  L.  James,  A.  C.  'of). 

Sylvester  Judd,  Jr.,  Y.  C.  '36,  writer  of  distinction. 
Pascal  P.  P.  Kidder,  Y.  C.  '36. 
Isaac  A.  Basset. 

Solomon  Clark,  W.  C.  '37,  minister  at  Plainfield  and'Goshen,  Me. 
George  Lyman,  A.  C.  '37,  minister  at  Sutton  and  So.  Amherst,  Mass. 
Daniel  W.  Poor,  A.C.  '37,  D.D.,  minister  Newark,  N.  J.,  Prof.  Eccl. 

Hist.,  and  Ch.  Gov't,  San  Francisco  Theol.  Seminary. 
Rufus  Taylor,  A.  C.  '37,  D.D. 
Abraham  Jenkins,  A.  C.  '38. 

Charles  Lord,  A.  C.  '38,  minister  a-t  Whately  and  Buckland,  Mass. 
Henry   Seymour,  A.  C.  '38,   minister  Deerfield  and  Hawley,    Mass. 
Edward  F.  Brooks,  minister,  W.  Va. 
Leonard  Adams. 
Elijah  H.  Bonney,  A.  C.  '39,  minister,  Pawlet,  Vt.,  Vernon  Centre, 

N.  Y.,  Lenox,  N.  Y.,  Clarkson,  N.  Y. 
Dexter  Clapp,  A.  C.  '39. 
Frederic  Dan  Himtington,  A.  C.   '39,  D.  D.,  minister  Boston  and 

preacher  at  Harvard  University,  Epis.  Bishop,  Central  N.  Y. 
Jonathan  S.  Judd,  W.  C.  '39,  minister  at  Whately. 
William  Porter,  W.  C.  '39,  D.D.,  Prof.  Latin  Lang.,  Beloit. 
William  B.  Stone,  A.  C.  '39. 

Simeon  Miller,  A.  C.  '40,  minister  Ireland  Parish  and  So.  Deerfield. 
Thomas  S.  Norton,  A.  C.  '40,  minister  at  Dover  and  Prescqtt,  Mass. 
Thomas  Spencer,  home  missionary. 
Luther  Clapp,  W.  C.  '41,  home  missionary,  Wisconsin. 
Loren  B.  Marsh,  minister  Chester,  Mass. 
D  wight  W.  Marsh,  W.  C.  '42,  D.D.,  missionary  to  Turkey. 
Zephauiah  M.  Humphrey,  A.  C.  '43,  D.D.,  Prof.  Ch.  Hist,  and  Pol. 

Lane  Theol.  Seminary. 

James  G.  Bridgmau,  A.  C.  '43,  missionary  to  China. 
Timothy  Lyman,  A.  C.  '44. 
Henry  K.  Edson,  A.  C.  '44,    principal  Hopkins  Acad.  and  Denmark 

Acad.,  Iowa,  Prof.  Iowa  College. 
Rodney  Gage,  Post  Chaplain,  Alexandria,  Va.,  1864. 
Stephen  B.  Adams. 
John  M.  Greene,  A.C.  '53,  tutor,  D.  D.,  trustee  Mt.  Holyoke  Sem., 

and  Smith  Coll.,  minister  llatiield,  So.  Hadley  and  Lowell,  Mass. 
William  E.  Dickinson,  A.  C.  '55,  minister  Chicopee,  Mass. 


Lyrnan  Bartlett,  A.  C.  '56,  missionary  to  Turkey. 

Henry  Powers,  minister  Manchester,  N.  H.,  and  elsewhere. 

Henry  M.  Bridgman,  A.  C.  '57,  missionary  to  So.  Africa. 

Richard  H.  Mather,  A.  C.  '57,  D.D.,  Prof.  Greek  and  German,  lec- 
turer in  Sculpture,  etc. 

Laurens  Clark  Seelye,  W.  C.,  Prof.  Rhet.  Amherst,  Pres.  Smith  Coll. 

Edward  Clark  Porter,  Y.  C.  '58,  minister,  Racine,  Wis. 

Henry  Porter,  M.D.,  missionary  to  China. 

J.  Edwin  Tower,  A.  C.  '58,  minister  at  N.  Brookfield,  not  ordained. 

Francis  L.  Nash,  minister  Sacramento,  Cal.,  and  elsewhere. 

Myron  A.  Johnson,  Episcopal. 

Charles  M.  Lamson,  A.  C.  '64,  13. D.,  Walker  Instructor  in  Latin, 
Amherst;  minister  Brockton  and  Worcester,  Mass.,  and  St. 
Johnsbury,  Vt. 

Martin  K.  Pasco,  A.  C.  '65,  minister  in  Marysville,  O.,  Belpre,  ()., 
and  elsewhere. 

Herbert  Jonathan  Cook,  A. C.  '69,  principal  Hopkins  Acad.,  minister 
Coldwater,  Mich.,  and  Dayton,  O. 

Arthur  Smith,  A.  C.  '77,  minister  at  Scarboro  and  So.  Freeport,  Me. 

Albert  Foote. 

PUPILS    OF    HOPKINS    ACADEMY    WHO     ENTERED    THE    MEDICAL 
PROFESSION. 

Edward  Dickinson. 

William  Workman. 

Chester  Johnson. 

Moses  Porter. 

Austin  Church,  M.  D.,  Y.  C.  '23. 

Orson  Osborn,  M.  D.,  Y.  C.  '24. 

Lewis  Hopkins. 

William  W.  Dwight,  Y.  C.  '26. 

Watson  Loud. 

Marshall  D.  Perry. 

Alonzo  Clark,  W.  C.  '28,  LL.  D.,  Prof,  in  sundry  medical  institutions 
in  N.  Y.,  and  elsewhere. 

Ephraim  Cook,  member  of  Canadian  Parliament ;  sentenced  to  death 
for  ministering  to  wounded  insurrectionists,  but  reprieved  and 
banished  to  the  states,  and  afterwards  returned. 

Silas  Cook. 

George  H.  Batchelder. 

Joseph  Bates. 

Sidney  Brooks,  A.  C.  '38. 


Levi  Dwight  Seymour,  surgeon  at  Hampton,  Va.,  during  the  civil  war. 

(icorgo  A.  Bates. 

William  II.  Willis  (named  changed  from  Orrick.) 

Jnbez  Baldwin  Lyman,  A.C.  '41,  instructor  French  and  German,  A.  C. 

George  C.  Fleming,  surgeon  in  Mexican  war. 

Franklin  Bonney,  A.  M.,  A.  C.  '69. 

Charles  Robinson,  Governor  Kansas  Territory. 

Lucius  Lyon,  B.  U.  'G9. 

George  F.  Thompson,  army  surgeon  during  the  civil  war. 

Edward  H.   Beaman. 

John  E.  Dwight. 

John  Chester  Lyman. 

H.  Frederic  M.  Smith. 

George  A.  Tuttle,  A.  C.  '83. 

PUPILS    OF    HOPKINS    ACADEMY    WHO    ENTERED  THE  PROFESSION  OF  LAW. 

Henry  Chapman. 

Aholiab  Johnson,  entered  W.  C.,  class  of  '23. 

George  Ashmun,  Y.  C.  23,  M.  C. 

Edward  Kirkland. 

Thomas  H.  Bond,  Y.  C.  '25. 

Lincoln  Clark,  A.  C.  '25,  M.  C.,  Judge,  etc. 

James  A.  Shed. 

Simeon  Nash,  Jr.,  A.  C.  '29,  Judge  Court  Com.  Pleas,  Ohio. 

John  A.  Taft,  Y.  C.  '25. 

Charles  P.  Huntington,  H.  C.  '22,  Judge  C.  P. 

Edward  Bates  Gillett,  A.  C.  '39,  Dist.  Attorney. 

Samuel  H.  Austin,  lawyer  in  Philadelphia. 

Erastus  Smith  Williams,  Judge. 

Elbridge  G.  Bowdoin,  A.  C.  '40. 

Ithamar  F.  Conkey,  Dist.  Attorney. 

Joseph  S.  Curtis,  W.  C.  '52,  Judge,  Green  Bay,  Wis. 

Henry  S.  Stockbridge,  A.  C.  '45,  State  Dist.  Attorney,  Md. 

Louis  I.  Fleming,  A.  C.  '47. 

Maj.  James  M.  Hosford,  entered  W.  C.  '47. 

John  Woodbridge,  Jr.,  A.  C.  '49. 

Matthew  McClung,  A.  C.  '55. 

John  Woodbridge  Smith,  A.  C.  '56. 

Sylvester  Stockbridge. 

John  Chester  Hammond,  A.C.  T>5,  trustee  of  Hopkins  Academy  and 

Williston  Seminary. 
Frederic  E.  Smith. 


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YOUNG    MEN    PUPILS  OF  HOPKINS    ACADEMY    WHO    ENGAGKD    IN  TKACIirNO- 
AND    BECAME    EDUCATORS. 

Joseph  Lyman  Partridge,  W.  V.  '2<S,  tutor. 
Francis  Phelps,  H.  U.  '37,  teacher,  Boston. 
Joshua  F.  Pearl,  Y.  C.  '30,  founder  of  Quaboag  Seminary,  Supt.  of 

schools,  Nashville,  Term. 
Merrick  Lyon,  B.  U.  '41,LL.D.,  preceptor  Greek  Lang.,  trustee  and 

socius  B.  U.,  teacher  in  Providence,  R.  I. 
Henry  K.  Edson,  A.  C.  '44,  principal  Hopkins  Academy,  principal 

Denmark  Academy,  Prof.  Iowa  College. 
Henry  Eastman,  teacher  of  music. 

William  Martin  Pierce,  A.  C.  '53,  teacher  in  Virginia  and  Missouri. 
William  D.  Whitney,  W.  C.    '45,  Prof.   Sanscrit  Lang.,  Lit.,  and 

comparative  philology,  Y.  C.,  etc.,  etc. 
Newell  Wedge,  A.  C.  '48,  teacher. 

Hon.  Levi  Stockbridge,  Prof,  and  Pres.  Mass.  Agr'l  College. 
William  L.  Montague,  A.  C.  '55,  Prof.  Modern  Lang.,  etc., 'A.  C. 
Rev.  Richard  H.  Mather,  A.  C.  '57,  D.D.,  Prof.  Greek  and  German 

Amherst  College. 

Leicester  Porter  Hodge,  A.  C.  '50,  teacher. 

Rev.  L.  Clarke  Seelye,  U.  C.,  Prof.  Rhet.   A.   C.,  Pres.  Smith  Coll. 
Henry  Parks  Smith,  A.  C.  '60,  teacher. 

Charles  D.  Marsh,    A.  C.  '77,  Prof.  Nat.  Science,  Ripon  Coll.,  AYi*. 
Edward  Ayres,  A.  C  '78,  principal  Hopkins  Acad.,  instructor  A.  C., 

principal  High  Sch.  and  Supt.  Schools,  Warren  and  Lafayette,  Ind. 
Charles  A.  Tuttle,  A.  C.  '83,  instructor  Hist,  and  Polit.  Econ.,  A.  C. 
Franklin  E.  Tuttle,  A.  C.  '89,  teacher. 

PATRONS    OF    EDUCATION. 

Miss  Sophia  Smith  may  have  been  a  pupil  of  Hopkins  Academy,  but 
this  is  not  ascertained  beyond  doubt.  If  not  herself  a  member 
of  the  school  a  younger  sister  was,  it  is  believed,  and  she  herself 
was  likely  to  have  caught  the  spirit  that  drew  hither  the  young 
women  of  her  class. 

Dea.  Eleazar  Porter,  founder  of  two  prizes  at  Amherst  College. 

Dea.  George  Dickinson,  founder  of  a  fund  for  the  increase  of  the 
library  of  the  Young  Men's  Lib.  Ass'n,  and,  in  a  possible  contin- 
gency, the  library  of  Hopkins  Academy. 

PUPILS    OF     HOPKINS     ACADEMY,     COLLEGE     GRADUATES,     WHO     ENTERED 
NEITHER    OF    THE    LEARNED    PROFESSIONS. 

Loomis  Cook,  W.  C.  '2«s. 
Nehemiah  Porter,  '21. 


151 

Pandias  T.  Ralli,  Greek,  Y.  C.  '30. 

Theophilus  P.  Phelps,  A.  C.  '41. 

William  E.  Tyler,  A.  C.  '44. 

John  S.  May,  W.  C.  '51. 

Lewis  W.  West,  A.  C.  '60. 

Frederic  D.  Kellogg,  A.'C.  '79. 

George  E.  Howe,  Grad.  Mass.  Agr'l  Coll. 

Fred  H.  Fowler,        "  "  " 

John  R.  Callahan,  A.  C.  '89,  law  student. 

Frank  B.  Doane,  A.  C.  '90. 

Edwin  A.  Richardson,  A.  C.  '90. 

PUPILS  OF  HOPKINS  ACADEMY  WHO  WQN  DISTINCTION  IN  CIVIL  LIFE,  ETC. 

George  Ashmun,  Y.  C.  '23,  M.  C.,  Pres.  Rep.  Nat.  convention  that 

nominated  Abraham  Lincoln. 
Lincoln  Clark,  A.  C.  '25,  Attorney  Gen.,  Ala.,  Judge  Circuit  Court, 

Ala.,  M.  C. 

Roger  Hooker  Leavitt,  state  senator. 
William  Hyde,  state  senator. 
Levi  Stockbridge,   Pres.  and  Prof.  Mass.  Agr'l  Coll.,  representative 

and  senator. 
George  W.  Hubbard,    state    senator,    trustee    Smith    Charities    and 

Smith  Coll. 

Francis  Edson,  representative  and  senator. 
Hinsdale  Smith,  state  senator. 
Hart  Leavitt,  county  commissioner,  Franklin  Co. 
Elisha  H.  Brewster,  county  commissioner,  Hampshire  Co. 
William  P.  Dickinson,  county  commissioner,  Hampshire  Co. 
P.  Smith  Williams,  county  commissioner  Hampshire  Co. ,  representative 
Daniel  B.  Gillett,  special  county  commissioner,  Hampshire  Co. 
John  S.  Bell,  representative  general  court. 

Parsons  West,  " 

Leicester  W.  Porter, 
Theodore  Clark, 

Horace  Cook,  "  "  "  two  terms. 

Horace  S.  Dickinson,         "  " 

Franklin  Bonney, M.I).,    "    ' 
Alexander  Hyde, 

Charles  Cook,  " 

Henry  L.  James,  "  "  " 

John  N.  Tierce, 

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Edward  B.  Gillett,  A.  C.  '39,  district  attorney. 

Ithamar  F.  Conkey,  district  attorney. 

Samuel  D.  Ward,  controller  city  Chicago. 

Charles  Robinson,  M.D.,  governor  territory  of  Kansas. 

E.  Monroe  Wright,  W.  C.  '39,  Sec'y  Com.  of  Mass. 

Samuel  Goode  Jones.  W.  C.  '37,  Eng.  Pres.  R.R.,  trustee  University 

of  the  South. 

Simeon  Nash,  Jr.,  Judge  Court  Com.  Pleas,  Ohio. 
William  P.  Rawlings,  high  sheriff. 
George  W.  Bonney,  amateur  artist. 
Capt.  Ephraim  O.  Smith,  shipmaster. 
Samuel  S.  Eastman,  editor. 

John  Howard  Jewett,  editor  Worcester  Evening  Gazette,  and  poet. 
William  P.  Porter,  trustee  and  treasurer  Hopkins  Academy. 
Elbridge  H.  Kingsley,  distinguished  artist  in  wood  engraving. 
Henry  W^orthington  Smith,    A.  C,   '59,  distinguished  life  insurance 

actuary. 

William  F.  Walker,  A.  C.  '86,  County  Supt.  Schools,  Vt. 
Edward  H.  I) wight,  artist. 
Henry  M.  Seymour,  editor. 
Clifton  C.  Johnson,  artist. 


There  is  reason  to  think  that  the  Hopkins  School,  prior  to  the  charter 
making  it  an  Academy,  was  chiefly  for  boys.  From  that  time  onward 
more  young  women  than  young  men  have  enjoyed  the  advantages  of  the 
school.  "For  forty  years  Hopkins  Academy  was  a  famous  fitting 
school."  Dr.  Humphrey  is  quoted  as  saying  that  "  it  educated  the 
girls  so  as  to  raise  them  above  their  brothers  and  their  brothers'  mates 
so  that  they  went  forth  as  teachers,  and  then  married  up."  These 
young  women,  many  of  them,  became  teachers  and  some  subsequently 
married  men  in  professional  life,  or  otherwise  distinguished. 

NAMES    OF    YOUNG    LADY    PUPILS    OF    THIS    CLASS. 

Amy  Porter,  m.  Rev.  Joseph  D.  Wickham,   D.D.,  Y.C.  1815,  tutor 
Burr  Seminary,  Manchester,  Vt.,  oldest  living  graduate  of  Yale. 
Lois  E.  Porter  (Coolitlge),  m.lRev.  Joseph  W.  Curtis. 
Julia  Smith,  m.  Hon.  Lincoln  Clark,  M.  C. 
Catharine  A.  Smith,  m.  Dr.  Jones. 
Mary  I).  Ward,  m.  Rev.  Horace  Smith. 
Lucretia  S.  Ward,  m.  Judge  Oviatt. 
Krissa  Kingsley,  m.  Rev.  Eli  Moody. 


153 

Nancy  Dwight,  in.  Austin  Church,  M.  I). 

Elizabeth  Dickinson,  m.  Horace  Goodrich,  M.  D. 

Maria  P.  Dickinson,  m.  Rev.  Lewis  Sabin,  D.  D.,  principal  Hopkins 

Academy,  etc. 

Harriet  Dickinson,  m.  Rev.  Ebenezer  Bullard,  2d  wife. 
Elizabeth  H.  Smith,  m.  Rev.  William  Harvey,  missionary  to  India, 

Mahrattas. 

Esther  Smith,  m.  Rev.  John  Dunbar,  missionary  to  Pawnee  Indians. 
Martha  Smith,  m.  Rev.  O.  G.  Hubbard. 
Miranda  Smith,  m.  Rev.  Pomeroy  Belden. 
Margaret  Smith,  m.  Rev.  P^benezer  Bullard. 
Julia  Smith,  m.  John  L.  Blodgett,  M.  D.,  and  afterwards  Chas.  Howe, 

Collector,  Port  Key  West,  Fla. v 
Susan  Porter,  m.  Rev.  Lucian  Farnham. 
Sarah  Hooker,  m.  Rev.  M.  L.  R.  Thompson,  D.D. 
Tirzah  M.  White,  m.  Judge  Williamson  of  Bangor,  Me. 
Francis  M.  White,  m.  John  Kimball,  Esq.,  lawyer. 
Abby  L.  White,  m.  Rev.  William  Williams. 
Clarissa  J.  Lyman,  in.  Rev.  John  H.  Bisbee. 
Mary  Ann  Woodbridge  (Hawley),  m.  Rev.  Parsons  Cook,  D.D. 
Rebecca  M.  Woodbridge,  m.  Judge  Erastus  Smith  Williams. 
E.  Octavia  Woodbridge,  in.  Rev.  R.  H.  Richardson,  D.  D. 
Abigail  D.  Gay  lord,  m.  Win.  Kirkwood,  M.D.,  Nassau,  N.  Prov. 
Lucy  Humphrey,  m.  Rev.  Henry  Neill,  D.D. 
Susan  C.  Belcher,  m.  Chas.  S.  Thomson,  M.  D. 
Lucy  Stone,  m.  Henry  B.  Black  well. 
Eunice  W.  Bullard,  m.  Rev.  Henry  Ward  Beecher. 
Caroline  Daugherty,  m.  Rev.  Wm.  M.  Richards. 
Caroline  Phelps,  m.  Rev.  S.  G.  Bullfinch. 
Charlotte  Phelps,  m.  Rev.  Mason  P.  Bartlett. 
Adaline  A.  Spaulding,  m.  Rev.  Moses  K.  Cross. 
Hannah  M.  Hodge,  m.  Rev.  James  Wilcox. 

Almira  Edson,  m.  Rev.  Mr.  Hall,  afterward  Geo.  Atwood,  M.  D. 
Harriet  M.  Hodge,  graduate  and  teacher  at  Maplewood,  authoress, 

etc.,  m.  Hon.  Thomas  F.  Plunkett. 
Emily  Pomeroy,  m.  Rev.  David  Eastman. 
Lucy  Ann  Clark,  m.  Levi  Dwight  Seymour,  M.  D. 
Lydia  Smith,  m.  Henry  PJ.  Ide,  merchant,  Brooklyn. 
Susan  H.  Smith,  m.  Edward  P.  Richardson,  M.  D. 
Maria  D.  Smith,  in.  Capt.  Joseph  Richardson,  shipmaster. 
Susan  S.  Seymour,  in.  Maj.  Jas.  M.  Hosford,  lawyer. 


154 

Mary  Smith,  m.  -         -  Phelps,  teacher,  California. 
Sarah  W.  Powers,  graduate  Maplewood,  m.  Rev.  Beuj.  Parsons,  mis- 
sionary to  Turkey. 

Lucy  P.  Beaman,  m.  -         -  Dayton,  M.  D. 
Sarah  S.  Wailis,  graduate  and  teacher  at  Maplewood,  m.  Rev.  F.  P. 

Chapin. 

Maria  W.  Nash,  teacher  and  authoress,  m.  James  H.Hackletou,  teacher. 
Mary  B.  Dickinson,  m.  Rev.  James  P.  Kimball. 
Martha  G.  Hubbard,  m.  Rev.  Francis  L.  Nash. 
Lepha  N.  ("lark,  graduate  and  teacher  at  Maplewood,  teacher  at  Vas- 

sar  College  and  at  Bergen,  N.  Y. 
Phebe  Whipple,    m.  Benjamin  F.  Ayer,  Esq.,  counsel   for    Illinois 

Central  R.  R. 

Delia  Whipple,  m.  Gen.  Joseph  C.  Abbott,  U.  S.  Senator,  N.  C. 
Celia  Whipple,  teacher  South  and  Chicago. 
Emma  I.  Porter,  m.  Rev.  Sereno  D.  Gammell. 
Charlotte  W.  Porter,  graduate  Miss  Porter's  school,  Farmington,  Ct., 

principal  of  "The  Elms,"  Hadley  and  Springfield. 
Mary  L.  Jewett,    graduate  State  Normal  School,  Westfield,  teacher 

State  Normal  School,  R,  I.,  m.  Chas.  F.  Taylor,  B.  U.  '63. 
Mary  E.  Beaman,  Grad.  Mt.  Holyoke,  m.  Sylvester  Stockbridge,  Esq. 
Emma  W.  Beaman,  graduate  Mt.  Holyoke,  teacher  Hopkins  Academy 

and  elsewhere. 

Mina  D.  Beaman,  m.  Rev.  John  D.  Willard. 
Mattie  Metcalf,  m.  Rev.  Herbert  J.  Cook. 
Alice  J.  Ayres,  graduate  Maplewood,  teacher  Tilestou  Normal  School 

Wilmington,  N.  C.,  m.  G.  W.  Baily. 
Mary  Scott,  graduate  Mt.  Holyoke,  teacher  A.  M.  A.,  Chattanooga, 

Term.,  and  Howard  Seminary,  Missouri. 
Emma  C.  Bardwell,  graduate  Mt.  Holyoke,  teacher  Hopkins  Academy 

and  Wallingford,  Conn.,  m.  Francis  J.  Heavens,  teacher  Hopkins 

Acad.,  Enfield,  Conn.,  Brookfiekl, "Mass.,  and  Wallingford,  Conn. 
Helen  M.  Smith,  graduate  Mt.  Holyoke,  m.  Henry  S.  Stockbridge, 

Jr.,  Esq.,  lawyer,  M.  C. 
Mary  H.   Bonney,    graduate  Smith  Coll.,  m.  Fred  E.  Smith,  Esq., 

lawyer. 

Lizzie  Hillman,  m.  M.  Ferguson,  M.  D. 
Louisa  H.  Smith,  graduate  State  Normal  School,  Westfield,  teacher 

Hadley  and  Lawrence,  m.  Edwin  H.  Baxter,  M.  D. 
Sarah  M.  Marsh,  graduate  Westfield  Normal  School,  teacher  Hadley 

and  Michigan. 

Alice  E.  Dickinson,  State  Normal  School,  Westfield,  teacher  Green- 
field, Hmsdale  and  Hopkins  Academy. 


155 

Edith  J.  Ayivs,  graduate  Smith  Coll.,  teacher  Chicago,  No.  Brook- 

lield,  Hopkins  Academy,  Brooklyn,  Clinton,  Northampton. 
Emily  R.  Marsh,  graduate  Mt.  Holyoke,  teacher  Bertier,  Canada. 
Alice  T.  Smith,  graduate  Mt.  Holyoke,  teacher  No.  Hadley. 
Lucy  McCloud,  graduate  Smith  Coll.,  teacher  Tilden  Seminary. 
Marion  McGregor  Dwight,  graduate  Smith  Coll. 
Caroline  1.  Doaue,  graduate  Smith  Coll.,  teacher  Ashfield  Acad. 
Theodora  W.  Reed,  graduate  Smith  Coll. 

L'UPILS    OF     HOPKINS    WHO    HAVE    RENDERED     SERVICE    TO    THE    COUNTRY 
IN    THE    RANKS    OF    HER    ARMY. 

Joseph  Hooker,  West  Point,  Maj.  Gen.  U.S.A.,  Commander  of  the 

Army  of  the  Potomac. 

Edwin  II .  Seymour,  served  in  the  Mexican  war. 
Joseph  B.  Plummer,  West  Point,  Gen.  U.  S.  A.,  died  in  Missouri 

during  the  civil  war. 
Col.  John  E.  Cook,  76th  Regt.  N.  Y.  Vol.,  commanded  at  Gettysburg 

after  his  superior  officers  were  slain. 

Maj.  James  M.  Hosford,  112th  Regt.  111.  Vol.  Infantry. 
Capt.  Phinehas  White,  Ind.  Cavalry. 
Henry  K.  White,  Regt.  Mich.  Cavalry. 

Ezra  W.  Matthews,  Maj.  of  Battery,  Brig.  Gen.  Gov.  Hawley's staff . 
Capt.  Edwin  S.  Nash,  — th  Regt.  Kansas  Vol. 
Lieut.  James  W.  Porter,  Battery. 
Lieut.  James  W.  Smith,  31st  Regt.  Mass.  Vol. 
Rev.  Jeremiah  Porter,  chaplain  before,  during  and  since  the  war,  for 

a  long  time  the  oldest  chaplain. 
Rev.  Rodney  Gage,  post  chaplain,  Alexandria,  Va. 
David  C.  Ayres,  hospital  steward,  Nashville,  Tenn. 
John  W.  Beaman.  )  rt    T  ,,- 
Kufus  P.  Scott,      f  2ml  Mass'  Battery- 
Edward  Johnson,  14th  Kansas  Cavalry. 
John  Sullivan,  1st  Mass.  Cavalry. 
Aaron  Scott,  96th  Regt.  111.  Vol. 
George  Dickinson,  — th  Regt.  Me.  Vol. 
Myron  Newton,   104th  Regt.  111.  Vol.,  killed  at  the  battle  of  Harts- 

ville,  Tenn.,  Dec.  6,  1862. 
Frederick  Brown,  56th  Regt.  Mass.  Vol. 
Asa  Clark,  Jr.,  46th  Regt.  Mass.  Vol. 
William  N.  Shipman,  50th  Regt.  Mass.  Vol. 
Corp.  John  A.  Morton,  Jr.,  15th  Regt.  111.  Vol. 


156 

Lieut.  John  Howard  Jewett,  10th  Regt.  Mass.  Vol. 

Corp.  John  C.  Clark,  mortally  wounded  "  " 

at  Spottsylvania, 

Corp.  Henry  Alonzo  Dunakin,  "  " 

Franklin  Hubbard,  "  44 

Wallace  A.  Hubbard,  "  44 

Alfred  Vanhorn,  "  tt 

Corp.  Rufus  A.  Cook,  died  in  Hospital      27th  Regt.  Mass.  Vol. 

at  Newbern,  N.  C. 

Henry  Dunakin,  killed  June  18,  1864,  "  « 

before  Petersburg,  Va. 

Herbert  F.  Johnson,  "  u 

Chas.  F.  Lyman,  «  44 

Lucius  D.  Smith,  44  u 

Corp.  Lewis  W.  West,  "  44 

Maj.  George  N.  Jones,  37th  Regt.  Mass.  Vol. 

Corp.  Levi  H.  Bartlett,  "  " 

Edwin  Dwight  Beaman,  <k  44 

Hosp.  Steward  Wm.  A.  Champney,        "  " 

Levi  P.  Dickinson,  "  44 

George  F.  Enderton,  "  " 

Charles  D.  Hodge,  "  44 

Corp.  Samuel  Hodge,  "  44 

George  W.  Nash,  "  44 

Samuel  D.  Smith,  "  44 

Corp.  Sylvester  B.  Stockbridge,  ^  " 

Francis  P.  Wheeler,  "  44 

Daniel  H.  Bartlett,  52nd  Regt.  Mass.  Vol. 
Charles  W.  Clark,  died  in  hospi- 
tal at  Baton  Rouge,  "  " 
Henry  C.  Comins,  "  " 
Alfred  L.  Cook,  4'  " 
Eleazar  Cook,  "  " 
S.  Parsons  Cook,  u  " 
Charles  F.  Dickinson,  "  " 
Luther  W.  Dickinson,  '•  " 
John  B.  Dunbar,  "  ^ 
Corp.  Charles  S.  Enderton,  "  " 


157 

Edwin  C.  Gray,  52nd  Regt.  Mass.  Vols. 

William  H.  Hay  ward, 

William  H.  Hodge,  " 

Sergt.  Lewis  B.  Hooker,  "  " 

Oscar  R.  Hubbard,  "  " 

Benjamin  Lombard, 

George  M.  Smith,  "  " 

Many  whose  names  do  not  appear  in  this  roll  of  honor  have  done 
good  service  to  their  country  and  their  kind  and  made  a  worthy 
record  in  various  lines  of  useful  activity. 

Possibly  some  names  that  should  appear  are  omitted  for  the  reason 
that  no  record  could  be  found  and  that  they  could  not  otherwise  be 
traced. 


CHAPTER  XIV. 


COURSE  OF  STUDY  IN  HOPKINS  ACADEMY. 

NAMES    OF    GRADUATES    WHO    HAVE    RECEIVED    ITS    DIPLOMA. 
PRESENT    MEMBERSHIP    OF    THE    SCHOOL. 

In  the  school,  as  now  administered,  two  courses  of  study  are  pro- 
vided, each  to  be  completed  in  four  years.  On  completing  either 
course,  or  its  equivalent,  the  graduate  receives  the  diploma  of  the 
institution  testifying  to  this  effect. 

Instruction  is  given  in  the  following  Departments  : 
I.     English  Language  and  Literature. 
II.     History  and  Government. 

III.  Mathematics. 

IV.  Natural  Sciences. 
V.     Latin. 

VI.     Greek. 
VII.     French. 

I.     English  Language  and  Literature. 

Reed  and  Kellogg's  Higher  Lessons  in  English.      (3  credits.) 
Kellogg's  Rhetoric.      (2.) 
Swinton's  English  Literature,  and  Brooke's  •Primer,  with  memorizing 

of  selections.      (4.) 
General  Exercises,  consisting  of  : 

a.  Spelling,  daily,  through  the  course. 

b.  Reading,  on  alternate  days,  during  first  half  of  the  course,  and  as 

much  longer  as   required  to   attain   a   satisfactory   degree   of 
proficiency. 

c.  Rhetorical    Exercises :     One    declamation,    one    essay,    and    two 

impromptu  compositions,  each  term. 

II.     History  and  Government. 
History  of  England.     ( 2 . ) 
Primer  of  Roman  History.      (1.) 
Primer  of  Grecian  History.      (1.) 
Anderson's  Universal  History.     (2.) 


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III.     Mathematics. 

Wentworth's  Algebra,  to  Progressions.      (3.) 
\\  iMitworth's  Geometry,  Four  Books.      (2.) 
Alnyliew's  Hook-keeping.      (1.) 
Natural  Philosophy.      (2.) 
Astronomy.      (1.) 
Arithmetic  reviewed.      (1.) 

IV.     Natural  Sciences. 
Houston's  Physical  Geography.      (2.) 
Morse's  First  Book  in  Zoology.      (1.) 
Dalton's  Physiology.      (2.) 

Gray's  School  and  Field  Book  of  Botany,  with  study  of  Composite.  (2.) 
Chemistry,  with  laboratory  work.      (2.) 
Geology  and  Mineralogy.      (1.) 

V.     Latin. 

First  Latin  Lessons.      (3.) 
Cn'sar,   four    books,  with   Jones's  Latin  Prose  Composition,  twenty 

lessons.      (3.) 
Cicero,  seven  orations,  including  Pro  Lege  Manilla,  with  Jones's  Latin 

Prose  Composition  finished.      (3.) 
Virgil's    TEneid,    six    books,    Georgics    and    Bucolics,    with    Latin 

Prosody.      (3.) 

VI.     Greek. 
Greek  Lessons.      (4.) 

Xenophon's  Anabasis,  four  books,  and  Jones's  Greek  Prose  Compo- 
sition, twenty  lessons.      (3.) 
Homer's  Iliad,  three, books.      (2.) 

VII.     French. 

Sauveur's  Petites  Causeries.      (2.) 
Keetel's  Elementary  French  Grammar.      (2.) 
Les  Doigts  de  Fee.      (*.) 
Racine's  Athalie.      (-£.) 
La  Fontaine's  Fables.      (1.) 

Unclassified. 

Gow's  Morals  and  Mnnners.      (1.) 
Mrntnl  Science.      (1 .) 
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Each  student,  in  addition  to  the  General  Exercises,  should  pursue,  at  least, 
three  studies.  A  permanent  record  is  kept  of  each  student's  scholarship. 
Upon  the  successful  completion  of  any  study,  credits  are  recorded  in  accor- 
dance with  the  foregoing  schedule.  The  recipient  of  thirty-six  credits  is 
entitled  to  graduation  and  a  diploma.  Each  branch  must  be  pursued  until 
satisfactory  attainment  be  made,  whether  the  time  required  be  longer  or 
shorter.  Faithful  students,  of  average  ability,  will  be  able  to  attain  three 
credits  each  term,  and  thus  graduate  in  four  years.  Those  who  can  attain 
thirty-six  credits  in  less  time,  wrill  be  permitted  to  do  so,  and  to  graduate 
when  qualified. 

Students  who  arc  absent  a  part  of  the  time  because  of  sickness,  or  for  other 
reason,  or  w^ho  absent  themselves  from  examination,  must  not  expect  to 
receive  credit  for  work  until  they  have  done  the  work. 

Students  who  can  attend  only  two  terms  each  year,  or  even  one,  may, 
nevertheless,  graduate,  when  they  shall  have  satisfactorily  accomplished  the 
required  amount  of  work.  Credit  will  be  given  for  studies  pursued  out  of 
school,  provided  a  satisfactory  examination  be  passed  upon  them.  Renl 
equivalents  will  be  accepted  in  place  of  authors  and  text-books  named  in  the 
course. 

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History  and  Government,  Mathematics  and  Natural  Sciences. 

The  Classical  course  consists  of  all  the  Latin,  Greek,  French,  Algebra  and 
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After  the  new  school  building  was  opened  in  1865  no  class  com- 
pleted the  course  of  study  prescribed  and  received  the  diploma  until 
1873,  when  the  first  class  of  three  was  graduated.  The  names  of 
those  receiving  the  diploma  are  these  : 

Class  of  1873. 
Charles  D.  Marsh,  Mary  N.  Shipman,  Augusta  Hawley. 

Class  of  1874.  , 

Edward  Ayres,  Mary  II.  Bonney. 

Class  of  1875. 

SEMPER    AD    ALTIOKA. 

Helen  M.  Smith,  Emma  C.  Bardwell,  Louisa  11.  Smith. 

Class  of  1876. 

TO    MERIT    SUCCESS    IS    THE    IIKJIIKST    SUCCESS. 


Edith  J.  Ayres, 
Mary  Pelletrier, 


Mary  Bell, 
Helen  Hooker, 
Jennie  Pelletrier, 


Sarah  O.  Barstow, 
Jennie  E.  Parker, 


Aiice  E.  Dickinson,  Emma  S.  Dickinson, 

George  A.  Tuttle. 
Class  of  1877. 
Caroline    Shaw. 
Class  of  1878.     None. 
Class  of  1879. 

CONSTATE     NOUIS. 

Annie  Cook, 
Lucy  McCloud, 
Jessie  Reynolds, 
Charles  A.  Tuttle. 
Class  of  1880.     None. 
Class  of  1881. 

FINIS    NOUDUM    EST. 

Prudence  C.  Richardson,    Caroline  M.  Bell, 
Florence  M.  Stebbins,        Caroline  B.  Wright. 
Class  of  1882. 

THERE    REMAINETH    MUCH    LAND    To    UK    POSSESSED. 


Fanny  A.  Cook, 
Caroline  S.  Marsh, 
Lettie  Smith, 


Lydia  A.  Cook, 


Emily  R.  Marsh, 


Agnes  Ayres, 


Marion  Mc.G.  G.  D  wight, 
Jennie  A.  Richardson. 
Class  of  1883. 

PERSEVERENTIA    ONM1A    VINCIT 

Fred  H.  Fowler, 
Hattie  E.  White. 

Class  of  1884. 
John  R.  Callahan,  Mary  E.  Pellissier. 


Lizzie  J.  Spear, 


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Frank  B.  Doane, 


Class  of  18*5. 

VESTIGIA    NULLA    RETRORSUM. 

Caroline  I.  Doane,  Theodora  W.  Reed, 

Etta  L.  Sawtelle. 
Class  of  1886. 

SrilOLAE     SED    VITAE     DIDICIMLS. 


Louise  .1.  Hell, 
Jennie  S.  llaimum, 


Catherine  Callahan, 


Mary  A.  Cook, 
Ilattie  E.  Knderton, 
Annie  8.  Lyons, 


Howard  II.  Bayne, 
Cotton  A.  Smith, 
Bertha  H.  Gates, 
Ellen  M.  Ryan, 


Nellie  G.  Burke, 
Thera  F.  West, 
Class  of  1887. 

AD    ASTRA    PER    AS  PER  A 

Martha  L.  Johnson, 
Lucy  F.  Webber. 
Class  of  1838. 

DROIT    EN    AVANT. 

Sarah  D.  Doane, 
Hattie  L.  Freeman, 
Gertrude  L.  Shaw, 
Class  of  1889. 

STRIVE    FOR    THE    BEST 

John  E.  Lane, 
Mary  L.  Cook, 
Annie  Halpine, 
Minnie  A.  Ryan, 
Class  of  1890. 

SILENCE    IS    GOLDEN. 

Alice  Martha  Beldeu, 
Grace  Beaman  Howe, 
Eva  Lulu  Richardson, 
Catherine  Maria  Shea, 
Edward  Charles  Pellissier. 


Nellie  L.  Gray, 
Edwin  A.  Richardson. 


Julia  I).  Seymour, 


Julia  S.  L.  Dwight, 
Ilattie  E.  Haskins, 
Frank  L.  Smith. 


Eugene  Pelletrier, 
Mary  D.  Emond, 
Maria  A.  Pellissier, 
Catharine  A.  Walsh. 


Sarah  Theodosia  Allen, 
Elizabeth  Catherine  Collins, 
Nettie  Louise  Johnson, 
Mary  Isabella  Sanderson, 
Jennie  Haynes  West, 

Of  these  graduates,  eighty-five  in  all,  we  number  fourteen  young 
men,  seventy-one  young  women,  or  more  than  five  to  one.  This  is  a 
fact  to  challange  notice  and  inquiry  as  to  its  meaning.  Previous  to 
the  incorporation  of  the  Academy  the  school  had  been  for  boys 
almost,  if  not  quite,  exclusively.  Since  that  time,  and  notably  in 
recent  years,  girls,  beyond  their  brothers,  have  been  ready  to  enter 
and  remain  within  these  doors  that  have  been  set  open  to  all  alike. 
For  what  good  reason  should  such  a  fact  be  a  permanent  feature  of 
the  history  of  this  school ? 


PRESENT    MEMBERS    OF    THE    SCHOOL. 

The  membership  of  the  school  for  the  winter  term  188D-UO  is  found 
in  the  catalogue,  that  follows  : 

Seniors. 

Alice  M.  Belden, 
Nellie  J.  Fitzgerald, 
Edward  C.  Pellissier, 
Kate  M.  Shea, 
Juniors. 

Margaret  A.  Conolly, 
John  E.  Daltou, 
George  E.  Johnson, 
Mary  R.  Kingsley, 
Bridget  A.  Ryan, 
Kate  L.  Whalen. 
Sophomores. 
Edward  H.  Cooke, 
Fannie  J.  Gaylord, 
Anna  T.  McQueston, 
Helen  R.  Reynolds, 
Nellie  E.  Whalen, 

Freshmen. 
Earl  W.  Bryant, 
Floyd  S.  Crafts, 
Mary  Halpine, 
Jennie  A.  Johnson, 
Wallace  R.  Lane, 
May  L.  Morton, 


Sadie  T.  Allen, 
'Lizzie  C.  Collins, 
Nettie  F.  Johnson, 
Mary  J.  Sanderson, 

Nellie  S.  Bissell, 
Lima  M.  Culver, 
Bertha  D.  Haines, 
Emma  B.  Kingsley, 
S.  Etta  McQueston, 


Annie  E.  Cahill, 
Mary  J.  Davis, 
Amy  S.  Lane, 
Julia  A.  Powers, 


Lawrence  A.  Belden, 
Margaret  B.  Collins, 
Alexander  T.  Ford, 
Arthur  C.  Howe, 
Edward  L.  Keefe, 
Edward  McGrath, 


Lina  M.  Cooke, 
Grace  B.  Howe, 
Eva  L.  Richardson, 
Jennie  H.  West. 

Jay  C.  Cooke, 
Mary  F.  Gates, 
Kate  L.  Keefe, 
Annie  L.  Lasalle, 
Peiiia  Stevens, 


Inez  E.  Crafts, 
Charles  C.  Hunter, 
Anna  E.  Pellissier. 
Mabel  L.  Shipinan, 


William  J.  Pellissier,    Fordyce  T.  Reynolds, 
Lucy  W.  Sanderson,     Fred  C.  Webber, 

Boys  for  Winter  Term. 
Robert  J.  Ford,  William  P.  Fowler, 

Charles  W.  Greene,      Edward  J.  Halpine, 
William  H.  Morgan,     John  E.  Shea, 
Robert  S.  Smith,  John  H.  Temple, 

Jesse  S.  Wilson. 


Julia  B.  Clarke, 
Theodora  Emond, 
Lucy  A.  Hickey, 
Julia  E.  Johnson, 
Kdwurd  S.  Marsh, 
Michael  O'Neill, 
Susie  M.  Russell, 
Martha  L.  Whalen. 


James  Gates, 
John  L.  Keefe, 
Kdward  C.  Smith, 
Kdward  P.  West, 


CHAPTER  XV. 


('MANGES  IN  THE  FORM  AND  VALUE  OF  SCHOOL  FUND. 
PRESENT  FORM,  CONDITION  AND  PROSPECTS. 

The  portion  of  the  Hopkins  legacy  assigned  to  Hadley  was  small, 
in  round  numbers  only  £308.  But  as  we  follow  the  story  we  are  led 
to  exclaim  how  great  a  matter  a  little  fire  kindleth.  The  heat  of  con- 
troversy concerning  it  inspires  the  exclamation.  The  feeling  rises, 
likewise,  in  view  of  the  beneficent  work  wrought  by  this  means, 
through  two  centuries  and  a  quarter.  The  Fund  that  had  such  origin 
has  suffered  no  serious  loss  since  the  burning  of  the  corn  mill  in  1677. 
Under  wise  and  careful  management  it  has  grown  to  many  times  the 
original  sum,  and,  while  furthering  the  end  to  which  it  was  devoted, 
with  due  allowance  for  the  uncertainty  of  all  material  things,  its  future 
growth  and  usefulness  seem  to  be  assured. 

This,  growth  of  value  is  due  in  part  to  the  fact  that  the  school  land 
esteemed  worth  but  little  when  granted  at  first,  by  the  town,  in  1668, 
appreciated  with  other  property  in  its  neighborhood.  This  meadow 
tract,  containing  sixty  acres  more  or  less,  with  considerable  upland 
adjoining,  was  bounded  by  the  Connecticut  river,  and  so  situated  in 
relation  to  it  that  it  grew  by  accretion  from  Hatfield  side  and  the 
stream  wore  for  itself  a  new  channel,  leaving  part  of  the  land  an 
island.  This  wearing  process  began  as  early  as  1805  or  1806.  In 
1825  the  new  channel  had  become  permanently  established.  The 
old  bed  of  the  river  gradually  filled  to  the  opposite  bank.  The 
right  to  the  land  thus  formed  was  in  dispute.  The  question  was 
submitted  by  the  Trustees  to  the  Supreme  Court.  At  the  Sep- 
tember term  held  in  Northampton  in  1852  the  Court  laid  down 
the  legal  principles  that  should  govern  in  the  premises  and  direct- 
ed that  one  or  more  commissioners  should  examine  the  facts,  come 
to  a  decision  and  report  their  doings  to  the  Court.  This  com- 
mission consisted  of  Joseph  Cummings,  C.  B.  Rising  and  Myron 
Lawrence,  whose  award  was  in  substantial  accord  with  the  demands 
of  the  Trustees.  Gushing  Rep.  9,  544-553. 


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Owing  to  such  causes  the  tract  of  land  which  in  1666  was  said  to 
contain  sixty  acres  more  or  less,  was  by  a  survey  made  in  1844  found 
to  contain  one  hundred  and  fifty-eight  acres  and  one  hundred  and  eight 
rods.  These  lands  were  for  a  long  series  of  years  rented  to  people 
living  near  them.  On  some  portions  buildings  were  erected.  But 
these  tenants  did  not  like  to  pay  rent,  grew  restive  under  its  burden 
and  longed  and  sought  for  ownership.  After  long  delay,  in  the  year 
1865,  the  Supreme  Court  in  answer  to  a  petition  for  this  object  in 
which  the  Trustees  and  the  town  of  Hartley  united,  granted  the 
Trustees  leave  to  sell,  at  public  auction  or  private  sale,  any  or  all  the 
land  held  by  them  in  trust,  the  proceeds  to  be  invested  in  securities 
of  the  United  States,  of  tlie  state  of  Massachusetts,  the  state  of  New- 
York  or  the  city  of  New  York  or  the  city  of  Boston,  or  upon  the 
security  of  ample  real  estate  by  bond  and  mortgage. 

Sales  of  most  of  the  lands  at  North  Hadley  followed,  resulting  in  a 
feeling  of  relief  and  independence  in  the  minds  of  those  who  had  been 
paying  rent.  The  productive  value  of  the  fund  increased  at  once. 
Those  of  the  Trustees  who  questioned  the  wisdom  of  making  the  sale 
came  to  see  and  acknowledge  that  it  •  was  well  that  the  change  took 
place.  The  proceeds  of  the  sale  were  most  of  them  for  a  time  in  bonds 
of  U.  S.  Later  these  were  sold  and  the  proceeds  placed  in  loan  and 
mortgage  on  real  estate  in  Chicago.  After  a  time,  a  shrinking  of 
nominal  values  came,  and  as  an  incident,  default  of  interest. 

The  Trustees  took  the  mortgaged  property  into  their  own  hands  and 
still  hold  it  and  from  it  receive  rent.  On  one  lot  they  built  a  house 
for  rental,  which  has  proved  a  happy  disposition  of  the  property, 
whose  value  has  grown  and  is  likely  to  be  still  further  enhanced. 

The  mill  privilege  at  North  Hadley — the  dam  and  stream,  which 
had  been  leased  for  ninety-nine  years,  in  1812,  at  an  annual  rental  of 
twenty  dollars  in  silver  money,  was  sold  and  conveyed  by  deed  of 
quitclaim  to  L.  N.  Granger  for  $300,  "  it  being  all  the  property  owned 
by  the  Trustees  on  or  near  the  mill  stream  at  No.  Hadley."  The 
estate  of  Mr.  Granger  paid  for  the  same  Dec.  22,  1877. 

GRANT  OF  A  HALF  TOWNSHIP  OF  LAND  IN  MAINE. 

On  the  foregoing  page,  31,  the  impression  is  given  that  no  gift  was 
made  to  the  Fund  later  than  the  grant  of  the  town  in  1678.  Exact 
truth  demands  notice  of  the  fact  that  the  Trustees  were  granted  a 
half  township  of  land  in  Maine  by  the  legislature  of  Massachusetts  on 
their  petition  to  this  end. 


107  • 

Nov.  29,  1817.  The  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  voted  to  peti- 
tion the  General  Court  of  Massachusetts  for  a  grant  of  a  half  town- 
ship of  land,  to  further  the  purposes  of  the  institution.  Isaac  C. 
Bates,  Esq.,  was  to  prepare  the  petition  and  the  prudential  committee 
were  required  to  take  all  proper  means  to  secure  the  success  of  the 
same. 

June  12,  1820,  the  General  Court  passed  this  resolve  : 

"  That  there  be,  and  hereby  is,  granted  to  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Acad- 
emy, their  successors  in  said  office  or  assigns,  for  the  sole  use  and  benefit  of 
said  Academy,  one-half  township,  of  six  miles  square,  from  and  of  the  unap- 
propriated lands  in  the  state  of  Maine,  which  on  the  division  of  said  lands, 
shall  fall  to  the  share  of  this  commonwealth ;  .and  to  be  subject  to  all  the 
reservations  usual  in  grants  of  this  kind^  the  same  half  town-ship  to  be  vested 
in  said  Trustees,  their  successors  in  said  office,  and  assigns  forever,  for  the 
sole  use  and  benefit  of  said  Academy,  reserving  four  hundred  acres,  one-half 
for  the  use  of  schools  and  the  other  half  for  the  use  of  the  ministry  therein ; 
the  said  half  township  to  be  laid  out  under  the  direction  of  the  Commissioners 
for  the  Sale  and  Settlement  of  Eastern  Lands,  at  the  expense  of  said  Trus- 
tees. Provided  the  said  Trustees,  within  five  years  from  and  after  the  laying 
out  and  location  of  said  half  township,  cause  ten  families  to  be  settled 
thereon,  and  provided,  also,  that  said  Trustees  give  bond  to  the  Treasurer  of 
tin1  Commonwealth,  faithfully  to  apply  the  proceeds  and  avails  of  said  half 
township  to  the  sole  use  and  benefit  of  said  Academy. 

And  be  it  further  resolved  that  the  said  half  township  of  land  shall  be 
located  agreeably  to  the  foregoing  provision,  within  ten  years  from  the  first 
day  of  January  next,  otherwise  this  grant  shall  be  void." 

Resolves  of  the  State  of  Massachusetts,  May  session,  1820. 

Aug.  28,  1820.  The  Trustees  voted  to  request  the  President  and 
Secretary  to  obtain  and  report  such  information  as  may  be  useful  to 
the  Board  concerning  the  half  township  of  land  granted  by  the  Gen- 
eral Court. 

Feb.  27th,  1821.  The  Trustees  appointed  a  committee,  consisting 
of  Isaac  C.  Bates,  Jonathan  IT.  Lyman,  William  Dickinson,  William 
Porter,  and  Moses  Porter,  to  contract  for  the  sale  of  the  half  town- 
ship granted  by  the  General  Court. 

Feb.  20,  1822.     The  Trustees  took  the  following  action  : 

Whereas,  at  a  meeting  of  said  Board  of  Trustees  held  on  the  27th  day  of 
February,  1H21,  I.  C.  Bates,  Jona.  II.  Lyman,  William  Dickinson  ahd  Moses 
Porter  were  appointed  a  committee  to  contract  for  the  sale  of  the  half  town- 
ship of  land  granted  by  the  General  Court  to  Hopkins  Academy,  and,  whereas 
in  pursuance  of  their  said  commission  and  authority,  a  contract  has  been 
in:ide  with  Joseph  Whitney,  Es<|.,  of  Calais,  in  the  county  of  Washington  and 
state  of  Maine,  which  contract  has  been  entered  into  by  Samuel  Hubbard, 
Esq..  of  IJoston,  as  agent  a.nd  attorney  of  said  committee,  and  in  the  name 
22 


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and  behalf  of  the  Trustees  of  said  Academy,  which  contract  is  dated  the  18th 
of  February,  inst.,  and  which  the  said  Trustees  are  now  at  liberty  to  aftirm 
or  reject  at  their  pleasure,  and  said  contract  being  before  the  Trustees  and 
duly  examined  and  well  understood  by  them,  Therefore,  voted,  We  do 
approve  of  the  doings  of  our  said  committee  and  of  the  said  Samuel  Hubbard, 
Esq.,  as  their  agent  and  attorney,  in  the  name  and  behalf  of  the  said  Trustees  ; 
and  that  we  do  hereby  ratify  and  confirm  said  contract,  and  make  it  our  own, 
and  do  hereby  direct  our  Treasurer  or  Secretary  whenever,  it  shall  be  neces- 
sary and  proper  to  convey  said  half  township,  according  to  our  contract  and 
agreement  aforesaid,  and  our  covenants  therein,  and  that  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board  be  directed  to  transmit  to  said  Samuel  Hubbard,  Esq.,  a  copy  of  this 
vote  as  his  sufficient  authority  and  justification  for  his  doings  in  the  premises. 
Tliis  land,  according  to  the  foregoing  contract,  was  probably  con- 
veyed to  Joseph  Whitney,  before  named. 
The  Treasurer's  accounts  show  that  he  received  for  Whit- 
ney's note,  Feb.  28,  1827,  $325.00 
Received  for  J.  Whitney's  note,  due  the  18th  of  February, 

March  1,  1830,  280.00 

Received  for  Whitney's  last  note,  due  Feb.  1 8,  March  1 6, 1 83 1 ,     265.00 


8870.00 

,  March  25th,  1822,  the  treasurer  credits  S.  Hubbard  $250  for  land. 
The  treasurer's  accounts  afford  only  such  light  as  this  concerning  the 
proceeds  of  the  sale  of  the  Maine  land. 

The  General  Court  passed  a  resolve,  Feb.  14.  1825,  on  petition  of 
Joseph  Whitney,  directing  the  agent  of  the  land  office  to  survey  and 
locate  the  half  township  of  land  for  the  Academy.  May  26,  1826,  the 
deed  was  made  to  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  in  the  town  of 
Hadley,  and  by  them  probably  conveyed  to  Joseph  Whitney.  The 
condition  for  the  settlement  of  ten  families  in  the  township  must  have 
been  waived.  The  land  has  been  held  for  the  timber.  It  is  not 
settled  nor  will  be  for  years  to  come.  The  impression  has  obtained 
without  good  ground,  that  the  money  received  from  the  sale  of  this 
land,  was  used  to  pay  for  erecting  the  Academy  building.  More 
probably  it  was  turned  into  the  treasury  and  employed  for  the  general 
uses  of  the  institution.  The  Treasurer's  accounts  give  this  impression. 
The  General  Court  about  the  same  time  made  a  similar  grant  to  the 
Trustees  of  Amherst  Academy.  They  sold  it  to  Joseph  Whitney  for 
$2,500,  date  of  conveyance  Feb.  22,  1821. 

Dea.  George  Dickinson,  who  died  Aug.,  1889,  left  in  his  will  the 
sum  of  $200  to  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  to  be  by  them  held 
in  trust  for  the  benefit  of  the  Young  Men's  Library  Association,  with 


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the  condition  that,  if  this  Association  should  cease  to  exist,  the  yearly 
income  of  this  bequest,  when  it  should  amount  to  $500,  should  be 
used  by  the  Trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  for  the  benefit  of  its  library. 
It  was  a  condition  of  the  bequest  that  its  income  should  not  be  used 
until  the  principal  had  grown  so  as  to  reach  the  sum  just  named. 

FORM,    CONDITION   AND   PROSPECTS    OF  THE   HOPKINS 
ACADEMY  FUND  AT  THE  PRESENT  TIME. 

The  inventory,  as  it  appears  from  the  books  of  the  Treasurer,  Nov. 
27th,  1889,  is  as  follows  : 

Ten  acres  of  land  on  Mount  Holyoke,  $       75.00 

Five^U  acres  of  land,  Hockanum  INleadow,  upper,  900.00 

Six                             "                "                "          lower,  400.00 

Four  J       "              "      Aqua  Vitae,  350.00 

Five  ,$&   "              'k       Great  Landing,  upper,  200.00 

Two  iij   "              "                       "           lower,  75.00 

Michigan  Avenue  property,  Chicago,  111.,  40,000.00 

Langley  6,500.00 

Rose  Park,  seven  lots,  $75  each,  525.00 

Harrison  Street,  Chicago,  111.  4,000.00 


Equal,  -$53,025.00 

Mortgage  loan  to  Joseph  Pellissier,  500.00 

Benjamin  K.  Prukey,  700.00 

John  B.  Mead,  -  600.00 

Edward  Stuber,  900.00 

Fred  Mixon,  800.00 

Ten  shares  Rock  Island  and  Peoria  R.  R.  stock,  800.00 


$4,300.00 

Estimated  value  Nov.,  1889,  $57,325.00 

"      Nov.,  1878,  33,231.25 


Increase  in  eleven  years,  $24,093.25 

It  is  likely  that  this  property  may  still  grow  in  value.  How  soon, 
or  to  what  extent,  it  were  hardly  safe  to  predict.  Definite  forecast 
of  the  future,  contingent  on  such  growth  could  hardly  be  wise.  It  is 
easy  to  see  that  with  ample  means  at  command,  much  might  be  done 
to  supply  the  school  with  facilities  which  it  now  lacks  and  needs,  and 


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to  render  its  work  broader,  deeper  tuid  more  efficient.  Such  hope  and 
desire  were  worthy  of  any  board  of  trust.  Less  than  this  could  hardly 
be  asked  of  them.  Such  is  the  spirit  of  the  Board  as  it  now  exists. 
It  is  looking  to  a  future  better  than  the  past  has  been,  to  the  realizing 
of  the  best  hopes  which  its  best  friends  have  ever  conceived  or  cher- 
ished in  its  behalf.  Among  the  things  possible  in  this  outlook  is  a 
new  building  for  the  exclusive  use  of  the  school,  beautiful  for  situation, 
plain  but  ornamental  architecturally,  itself  an  inspiring  object  lesson, 
all  its  appointments  such  as  to  make  the  school  itself  more  valuable, 
and  more  beneficent  as  a  factor  in  the  system  of  schools  of  which  it 
is  a  part. 


CHAPTER  XVI. 


CONCLUSION. 

This  history  makes  the  impression  that  the  guardians  of  this  trust 
through  all  these  years  have  been  careful  to  cherish  the  memory  of 
him  whose  beneficence  gave  it  being,  breathe  his  spirit  and  further  the 
ends  which  he  proposed  to  himself.  This  spirit  is  alive  to-day  and  in 
command.  One  in  whom  it  is  not  alive  might  well  be  sensible  that  it 
ill  becomes  him  to  have  part  in  the  administration  of  a  trust  so  high 
and  sacred  and  charged  with  such  power  for  good.  The  like  spirit 
has  ruled  in  the  young  men  and  women,  a  goodly  company,  who  have 
done  the  teacher's  work.  The  same  thing  is  true  very  largely  of  the 
hundreds  of  young  men  and  women  who  have  received  here  in  part  their 
training  for  the  work  of  life.  Happy  were  it  for  every  youth,  who 
leaves  these  halls  in  time  to  come,  to  feel  that  he  has  gained  what  he 
has  and  become  what  he  is  in  the  way  of  learning,  discipline  and  cul- 
ture, in  order  that  the  meaning  of  life  shall  be  to  render  service  in 
highest  kind  and  largest  measure  to  all  within  reach,  since  it  is  ever- 
more true  all  along  the  ages  as  they  come  and  go,  that  no  man  liveth 
to  himself. 

In  this  history  we  trace  the  tokens  of  an  agency  higher  than  human, 
"  the  divinity  that  shapes  our  ends."  It  is  not  of  man  that  walketh 
to  direct  his  steps,  as  he  crosses  the  sea  and  traverses  an  untrodden 
wilderness  to  make  beginnings  and  lay  foundations  in  this  goodly 
valley.  It  was  not  human  foresight  that  brought  Wm.  Goodwin  to 
Hadley  and  with  him  a  part  of  the  estate  of  Edward  Hopkins,  small 
according  to  the  reckoning  of  to-day,  to  encourage  hopeful  youth  in  the 
way  of  learning,  that  on  this  spot  such  a  good  work  should  begin  and 
continue  until  now,  that  so  many  should  share  the  benefits  of  this 
school,  to  communicate  as  well  as  enjoy,  that  it  should  be  such  a  boon 
as  it  has  been  to  the  town  of  Hadley  and  its  young  people  and  none 
the  less  for  the  reason  that  so  many  others  have  been  blessed,  that 


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through  this  period  of  •  two  and  one-third  centuries  the  fund  should 
suffer  no  other  serious  loss  than  that  which  almost  at  the  first  was  due 
to  the  fortunes  of  war  with  the  Indians,  that  from  this  loss  recovery 
in  good  degree  should  come  after  so  long  delay  ;  that  this  stream 
diffusing  good  so  steadily  and  so  long  should  still  swell  as  it  flows  and 
give  promise  of  growth  and  doing  still  better  the  beneficent  work 
which  it  has  sought  to  do  from  the  beginning. 

Now  it  has  come  to  pass,  in  the  course  of  events  whose  shaping  is 
not  of  man,  that  the  school  is  free  to  the  people  of  Hadley  and  her 
children,  and  its  advantages  for  them  to  enjoy  almost  exclusively,  a 
result  in  some  of  its  aspects  to  be  deplored.  This  signal  privilege 
should  be  recognized,  and  this  recognition  properly  carries  with  it  a 
sense  of  responsibility  and  obligation  to  prize  these  blessings,  make  the 
most  of  them  and  enhance  their  value  for  all  the  years  that  are  to  come*. 

The  coming  hither  of  one  of  the  Trustees  of  Gov.  Hopkins  and  the 
planting  here  of  the  school  that  ever  since  has  borne  his  name  and 
done  the  work  for  which  he  studied  and  planned,  were  a  beginning. 
Who  shall  tell  what  fruit  has  grown  from  this  planting.  What  has 
grown  and  is  still  growing  on  this  soil  is  known  and  read  of  all  men. 
Hampshire  County  is  memorable  for  the  institutions  of  the  higher 
order  that  cluster  here  within  ten  miles  of  each  other  and  all  within 
sight  from  the  summit  of  Mt.  Holyoke.  The  eldest  of  this  sisterhood 
is  Hopkins  Academy  herself,  dating  from  1816,  with  a  history  as 
Hopkins  Donation  school  reaching  still  further  back  one  hundred  and 
forty  years. 

Here  are  Amherst  College  and  in  the  same  town  the  Massachusetts 
Agricultural  College.  Mt.  Holyoke  Seminary  and  College,  Smith 
Academy  in  Hatfield,  Smith  College  in  Northampton  and  Williston 
Seminary  in  Easthampton.  The  men  and  women  who  founded  these 
schools  were  of  like  mind  with  Edward  Hopkins  and  Win.  Goodwin. 
Out  of  like  regard  for  God  and  man,  and  like  desire  to  set  in  motion 
streams  of  blessing  to  flow  down  the  centuries,  they  called  these  insti- 
tutions into  being  and  started  them  on  their  grand  career.  These 
later  friends  of  good  learning  had  the  larger  wealth  and  the  power 
that  belongs  to  it.  But  the  spirit  that  was  in  them  was  in  these  earlier 
benefactors.  Their  foresight  was  clear  and  far-reaching.  They  laid 
their  foundations  when  such  examples  were  rare  as  compared  with 
what  is  true  to-day.  Example  they  had  none  in  this  part  of  this  then 
new  country.  They  became  an  example  whose  inspiration  may  well 
be  conceived  as  reaching  down  to  the  present  hour,  and  revealing 


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itself  in  these  halls  of  learning  which  now  gladden  our  eyes.  These 
later  benefactors  could  but  tread  in  the  steps  of  those  who  had  gone 
before.  Possibly  their  works  had  never  appeared  on  this  scene  had 
not  the  like  of  them  been  seen  here  before. 

The  institutions  just  named,  with  the  exception  of  Smith  College 
tuid  Willistoii  Seminary,  are  within  the  boundary  of  the  original  town 
of  Hartley.  Within  these  limits  Miss  Sophia  Smith  had  her  birth  and 
life-long  residence.  She  was  a  descendant,  in  the  sixth  generation, 
of  Lieut.  Samuel  Smith,  one  of  the  first  Trustees  of  that  portion  of 
the  Hopkins  legacy  that  was  assigned  to  Hadley  by  Davenport  and 
( Joodwin  in  their  division  of  the  estate,  in  1664.  It  has  been  thought 
and  said  that  she  was  herself  among  the  pupils  of  Hopkins  Academy 
at  its  opening.  Though  this  is  in  question  a  sister  of  hers  is  remem- 
bered to  have  been  a  pupil.  If  it  came  too  late  for  herself  to  enjoy, 
there  is  reason  to  think  she  was  glad  of  the  opening  of  the  school  for 
her  sex  to  enjoy  and  that  she  received  an  impulse  from  this  source 
which  at  length  found  expression,  with  the  opportunity,  linked  with 
duty  as  she  saw  it  and  the  desire,  in  the  establishment  for  the  education 
of  the  youth  of  her  town  and  country,  of  the  College  and  Academy 
that  perpetuate  her  name. 

Hopkins  Academy  did  not  open  its  doors  soon  enough  for  Samuel 
AVilliston  to  enter.  But  he  may  have  felt  its  influence  in  the  direction 
of  what  he  became  and  what  he  did  in  gaining  and  bestowing  wealth 
to  found  and  foster  seats  of  learning,  that  others  might  enjoy  advan- 
tages of  this  kind  that  were  denied  to  himself.  But  his  father,  the 
honored  pastor  of  the  church  at  Easthampton,  was  in  intimate  sym- 
pathy with  the  first  Trustees  of  the  Academy.  His  sister,  Miss  Sally 
Willistoii,  was  the  first  preceptress.  In  this  wise  he  was  within  the 
circle  of  influence  that  had  its  centre  here,  and  may  have  derived  from 
this  source,  even  if  unconsciously,  something  of  the  spirit  that  turned 
the  vision  of  Krtward  Hopkins  down  to  future  times  with  the  weal  of 
the  country  and  the  honor  of  God,  the  burden  on  his  heart. 

The  friends  of  the  school  look  with  hope  for  a  future  better  than 
the  past  and  will  study  to  make  it  sure,  supplying  as  they  may  be  able 
aids  and  facilities  in  the  work  of  instruction,  such  as  a  library  better 
furnished  than  now,  illustrative  apparatus  and  the  like,  and  a  perma- 
nent corps  of  instruction  whose  quality  may  challenge  severe  scrutiny 
and  comparison.  All  such  endeavor  can  be  only  an  onward  move- 
ment in  the  line  of  the  wishes  and  prayers  and  gifts  and  labors  of  the 
school's  early  benefactors  and  friends. 


APPENDIX  A. 


THE   HOPKINS   FUND   AT   NEW   HAVEN. 

In  the  division  of  the  Hopkins  legacy  by  the  surviving  trustees, 
Davenport  and  Goodwin,  in  1664,  the  sum  of  £400  was  assigned  to 
Hartford  on  certain  conditions,  that  the  remainder  of  the  estate  "both 
that  which  is  in  New  England  and  the  £500  which  is  to  come  from  Old 
England  ivhen  it  shall  become  due  to  us  after  Mrs.  Hopkins  her  decease 
be  all  of  it  equally  divided  between  the  towns  of  New  Haven  and 
Hadley  to  be,  in  each  of  those  towns  respectively,  managed  and  im- 
proved towards  the  erecting  and  maintaining  of  a  Grammar  school  in 
each  of  them."  Out  of  the  part  which  Hadley  hath  it  was  stipulated 
that  £100  should  be  paid  to  Harvard  College.  New  Haven's  share 
in  this  division  was  £412.  Hartley's  share  £408  less  the  £100,  or 
£308.  The  £500  which  was  to  come  from  the  estate  to  New  Haven 
and  Hadley  on  the  decease  of  Mrs.  Hopkins,  never  came.  Her  death 
took  place  Dec.  10,  1608,  more  than  forty  years  after  that  of  her 
husband.  At  that  time  the  original  trustees  were  long  since  de:ul. 
Their  successors  in  office,  whose  duty  it  was  to  secure  this  bequest 
when  it  became  due,  failed  to  do  so,  hindered  possibly  by  the  thong] it 
of  the  difficulty,  delay  and  expense  of  securing  a  favorable  decree  in 
the  English  Court  of  Chancery.  After  the  decree  in  this  court 
assigning  this  bequest  to  Harvard  College  and  the  Grammar  School 
at  Cambridge,  some  effort  was  made  to  secure  New  Haven's  chiiin 
in  the  premises.  But  this  endeavor  was  feeble  and  fruitless.  It  came 
too  late,  and  has  never  been  renewed  nor  apparently  has  any  such 
purpose  or  thought  been  entertained.* 

On  the  gift  of  £412  before  mentioned  from  the  Trustees  of  Gov. 
Hopkins,  the  school  still  known  as  the  Hopkins  Grammar  School  at 
New  Haven  was  founded.  It  has  continued  in  being,  from  the  time 
the  income  of  the  fund  became  available  in  1664  until  this  day. 
[Judd's  Hist.  Hadley,  p.  56.] 

*See  Review  of  President  Quincy's  History  of  Harvard  University,  in  American  Biblical 
Repository  for  Jan.,  1842,  pp.  175-185. 


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During  this  long  career  ofc  usefulness  it  has  been  chiefly  a  school 
for  fitting  young  men  for  college.  The  main  object  of  the  school  is 
to  prepare  boys  for  college,  particularly  for  the  Academical  Depart- 
ment and  Shi'Hield  Scientific  School  of  Yale  University,  for  which  it  has 
litled  more  boys  than  any  other  preparatory  school.  From  it  likewise 
many  graduate,  who  enter  into  business  as  their  life  work. 

A  long  list  of  young  men,  mostly  recent  graduates  from  college, 
Imve  been  rectors  of  this  school,  many  of  whom  have  become  eminent 
in  other  walks  of  life.  On  the  roll  of  its  alumni  many  distinguished 
names  are  found.  The  catalogue  of  1887-8  gives  a  list  of  97  pupils. 
The  corps  of  instruction  consists  of  the  rector  and  four  other  teachers. 
The  cost  of  tuition  is  $80  per  year,  the  whole  yearly  expense  ranging 
from  $280  to  $430. 

The  amount  of  funds  held  by  the  Trustees  at  the  present  time  is 
$8,000  of  productive  property,  yielding  an  annual  income  of  $400. 
A  brick  school-house  capable  of  accommodating  200  pupils  likewise 
belongs  to  the  school,  with  ample  play-ground  attached.  Recently 
something  has  been  thought  and  said  about  merging  this  school  in  the 
public  school  system  of  New  Haven.  But  the  Trustees  of  the 
( inmun.'ir  School  seem  not  inclined  to  such  a  measure  but  to  favor  the 
continuing  of  their  own  institution  and  its  good  work. 


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APPENDIX  B- 


THE  HOPKINS  FUND  AT  HARTFORD. 

The  Trustees  of  Gov.  Hopkins,  Davenport  and  Goodwin,  in  the 
final  division  of  his  legacy  in  1664  assigned  £400  to  Hartford  to  be 
managed  by  Dea.  Edward  Stebbing,  and  Lieut.  Thomas  Bull  and  their 
assigns,  in  accord  with  the  ends  of  the  donor. 

A  school-house  was  built  in  Hartford  in  1665,  after  Hartford  had 
gained  £400  from  the  Hopkins  Fund.  The  date  of  the  beginning  of 
Hopkins  school  must  be  set  down  at  1665.  But  the  name  of  no 
teacher  appears  until  1674  when  Mr.  Caleb  Watson  (H.  C.  1661)  who 
had  been  teacher  at  Iladley,  undertook  the  school  and  continued  to 
teach  it  until  1705,  when  a  vote  was  passed  that  he  be  no  longer 
schoolmaster  to  this  town.  For  the  first  century  of  its  existence,  the 
school  was  scarcely  more  than  a  primary  school  for  "  the  children  and 
servants  "  of  the  town.  It  seems  to  have  been  the  only  public  school 
of  any  sort  in  Hartford  during  that  period. 

The  town  in  1753  passed  a  vote  providing  that  the  incomes 
"belonging  to  the  free  school  (so  called)  in  this  town,  shall  be 
applied  to  the  use  and  support  of  a  Grammar  School  to  be  kept  in  the 
town  of  Hartford  for  the  future."  One  who  has  written  a  histor}7  of 
the  school  says,  u  It  sounds  very  oddly  that  an  institution  which  for 
full  two-thirds  of  a  century  had  been  on  the  foundation  of  a  fund 
for  the  encouragement  of  hopeful  youth  at  the  Grammar  School  and 
College  should  be  changed  by  a  vote  of  the  town  of  Hartford  into  a 
Grammar  School."  The  vote,  on  its  very  face,  seems  to  be  a  confession 
of  past  delinquency."  L.  W.  Bacon's  discourse  at  New  Haven, 
Appendix  pp.  64,  65. 

In  1797  the  town,  at  the  request  of  the  committee,  appointed  agents 
to  apply  for  a  charter  of  incorporation.  Such  charter  was  granted  in 
1798,  empowering  the  Trustees  to  hold  productive  funds  to  an  amount 
not  exceeding  $20,000,  to  manage  them  and  the  school  and  appoint 
forever  their  own  successors.  Since  then  the  fund  has  much  increased 


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and  a  school  been  maintained  whose  fame  for  thorough  classical 
instruction  has  been  surpassed  by  that  of  no  other  school  in  the 
country. 

A  school  was  in  existence  in  Hartford  as  early  as  1638,  supported 
for  the  first  thirty  years  in  part  by  appropriations  made  from  time  to 
time  by  the  town  and  in  part  by  tuition  fees  of  pupils.  The  first 
bequest  in  its  favor  was  made  by  Win.  Gibbons  in  1655,  who  gave  to 
the  town  of  Hartford  thirty  acres  of  land  in  the  town  of  Wethersfield 
for  the  support  of  a  Latin  School.  In  1659  it  received  a  small  dona- 
tion from  John  Talcott. 

In  1664  the  Trustees  under  the  will  of  Gov.  Hopkins  gave  to  the 
town  of  Hartford  the  sum  of  £400  for  the  support  of  the  school.  It 
was  further  endowed  in  1673  by  a  grant  from  the  Connecticut  Colony 
of  600  acres  of  land  in  what  is  now  the  town  of  Stafford.  In  1680  it 
received  a  donation  of  £50  from  James  Richards. 

The  town  of  Hartford,  through  committees  chosen  for  the  purpose, 
for  more  than  a  century  managed  the  school  and  the  funds  accruing 
from  the  sources  named,  until,  upon  petition  of  the  town,  the  State 
Legislature,  in  May,  1798,  incorporated  the  school  under  the  name  of 
"'The  Hartford  Grammar  School,"'  and  appointed  Trustees  with 
power  to  fill  all  vacancies  caused  by  death  or  otherwise,  so  that  the 
obligation  of  the  town  to  maintain  a  "Latin  School"  as  stipulated 
in  the  will  of  William  Gibbons,  to  provide  for  the  building  up  of  hope- 
ful youths  at  the  Grammar  School  as  stipulated  by  E.  Hopkins,  and  a 
Free  School  "  for  the  schooling  of  all  who  should  come,  in  the  Latin 
and  English  languages,"  according  to  the  conditions  of  the  colonial 
grant  was  performed  from  1798  to  1847  by  the  Grammar  School. 

Up  to  the  year  1847  the  privileges  of  this  school  had  been  confined 
to  boys.  During  that  year  the  public  High  School  was  established  by 
the  town  of  Hartford,  for  the  "  free  instruction  in  the  higher  branches 
of  an  English  and  the  Elementary  branches  of  a  classical  education, 
for  all  the  male  and  female  children  of  suitable  age  and  requirements 
who  may  wish  to  avail  themselves  of  its  advantages." 

This  school  is  now  maintained  in  a  building  costing,  with  its 
furnishings,  $285,000.  The  cost  of  maintenance  for  the  year  ending 
Sept.  30,  1887,  was  $27,747.  Teachers'  salaries  $20,015.78.  The 
number  of  teachers  in  the  corps  of  instruction  is  eighteen,  nine  men 
and  nine  women.  Whole  number  of  different  scholars  registered 
during  the  year  548. 

In  this  school  the  salary  of  the  classical  teacher  is  paid  from  the 


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income  of  the  Grammar  School  fund  which  has  grown  from  the 
beginnings  already  mentioned,  (Gov.  Hopkins'  legacy  chief  among 
them),  until  its  investments  amount  to  $44,04*2.00  ;  yearly  income, 
$2,337.50.  Biennial  Catalogue  of  the  Hartford  Public  High  School 
for  1886-1887. 


APPENDIX  C. 


THE  HOPKINS  FUND  AT  CAMBRIDGE  GRAMMAR  SCHOOL 
AND  HARVARD  COLLEGE. 

In  the  will  of  Gov.  Hopkins  the  sum  of  £500  was  devised  to  be  paid 
from  his  estate  in  England  on  the  decease  of  his  wife,  to  his  Trustees 
to  further  the  ends  which  they  were  already  in  trust  to  promote.  Mrs. 
Hopkins  died  Dec.  10,  1698* — surviving  her  husband  more  than  forty 
years.  The  Trustees  under  the  will  were  dead.  The  executor,  Henry 
Dalley,  likewise  was  long  since  deceased.  It  has  been  seen  that  in 
the  distribution  of  the  estate  by  Davenport  and  Goodwin  it  was 
agreed  that  the  £500  to  come  from  the  estate  in  England  on  the  decease 
of  Mrs.  Hopkins  should  be  divided  equally  between  New  Haven  and 
Hadley.  Mr.  Davenport  caused  this  agreement  to  be  entered  in  the 
town  record  of  New  Haven.  ^ 

Everard  Extern,  Esq.,  the  executor  of  the  executor  and  his  heirs  at 
law,  claimed  that  there  were  not  assets  enough  to  pay  the  £500. 
Nothing  was  done  to  oblige  him  to  pay  over  the  money  or  account  for 
its  expenditure  until  1708.  Then  proceedings  were  begun  in  the 
Court  of  Chancery,  by  the  Queen's  Attorney  General  "  at  the  relation 
of  the  Corporation  for  the  propagation  of  the  Gospel  in  New  Eng- 
land and  parts  adjacent  in  America."  The  scope  of  the  bill  was  that 
the  pious  design  of  the  donor  might  be  carried  out  and  Trustees 
appointed  for  the  purpose  expressed  in  the  will  of  Gov.  Hopkins.  In 
1709  Harvard  College  began  like  proceedings  through  its  agent  in 
London,  Mr.  Henry  Newman,  to  whom  a  remittance  of  £40  was  sent 
to  be  used  in  gaining  his  end. 

The  case  came  to  a  hearing  on  the  9th  of  July,  1709,  and  reference 
was  made  to  a  master  in  Chancery  to  take  account  of  the  assets  of 
the  Hopkins  estate  liable  to  the  said  £500  ;  and  in  case  the  said  £500 

*There  is  confusion  concerning  this  date.  The  year  is  given  1698  and  1699,  and  the  day  of 
the  month  the  10th,  16th,  and  17th  in  the  same  paper. 


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should  be  received  it  was  ordered  that  the  same  should  be  paid  and 
applied  to  the  school  and  college  in  New  England  for  the  building  up 
of  scholars  then  in  the  school  and  college,  according  to  the  will  of  the 
said  Edward  Hopkins.  In  order  thereto  the  master  was  to  examine 
witnesses  or  write  to  New  England  to  learn  if  there  was  any  such  a 
school  or  college  there,  and,  if  not,  then  what  school  or  college  was 
there  and  on  what  purpose  founded  and  report  the  result  of  his  inquiry 
to  the  Court. 

Feb.  10,  1710-11.  The  master  reported  sufficient  assets  to  pay  the 
legacy,  also  that  sixty  or  seventy  years  ago  there  was  and  is  now  a 
school  and  college  at  Cambridge  in  New  England  and  called  Harvard 
College  and  near  by  a  small  building  called  Stoughtou  College. 

On  the  7th  of  March,  1710,  following,  the  Right  Honorable  Sir 
Symon  Harcourt,  Knight,  Lord  Keeper  of  the  Great  Seal  of  (Jivtit 
Britain,  decreed  that  within  three  months  the  £500  with  interest  for 
the  same  at  the  rate  of  five  pounds  per  centum  per  annum  from  six 
months  after  the  death  of  the  said  Anna  Hopkins,  should  be  brought 
before  the  master  and  by  his  approval  paid  out  in  a  purchase  of  lands 
in  New  England,  in  the  name  of  the  Corporation  for  the  propagation 
of  the  Gospel,  but  the  trust  is  to  be  declared  in  the  deeds  to  be  for  the 
benefit  of  the  College  and  Grammar  School  at  Cambridge  in  New 
England,  according  to  the  several  portions  they  shall  be  entitled  unto. 

A  final  decree,  however,  was  made  March  19,  1712-13,  confirming 
what  was  done  Dec.  18th  preceding,  in  which  it  was  ordered  that  the 
money  should  be  invested  in  lands  in  the  name  of  twenty-one  Trus- 
tees, of  whom  Joseph  Dudley  was  the  first  mentioned.  In  accordance 
with  this  decree  the  £500,  with  interest  added  from  January, 
1700,  was  sent  to  Samuel  Sewall,  one  of  the  Trustees  who  by  the 
decree  was  appointed  treasurer.  He  records  in  his  diary  July  15,  1715, 
the  receipt  of  a  letter  from  Sir  William  Ashurst,  bringing  the  remit- 
tance of  Mr.  Hopkins's  legacy.  He  charges  himself  with  £1104- 
8s-2d,  which  was  the  legacy  sent  over,  and  with  £147-5s  more  for 
difference  between  15d  and  17d  weight,  making  £1251-13s-2d  in  all*. 

These  Trustees  purchased  from  the  Natick  Indians,  in  1715,  9266 
acres  of  land  and  the  General  Court  added  by  gift  8000  acres  more. 
These  lands  the  Trustees  leased  for  a  time,  but  trouble  came.  Rents 
were  unpaid  and  disputes  arose  concerning  terms  of  lease,  so  that  in 
1832,  by  resolve  of  the  General  Court,  they  were  paid  $8000  from  the 
State  Treasury.  The  tenants  of  Hopkinton  and  Upton  in  considera- 
tion of  the  release  of  all  claims  upon  them  by  the  Trustees  also  paid 


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them  $2000  more.     This  tract  of  land  was  incorporated  in  1715  as  the 
town  of  Hopkinton  in  honor  of  Edward  Hopkins. 

The  Trustees  received  from  the  Legislature  in  the  year  1827  an  act 
of  incorporation  as  the  Trustees  of  the  Hopkins  Fund.  Acts  and 
Resolves  of  that  year. 

In  the  distribution  of  the  Hopkins  Bequest  by  Davenport  and 
Goodwin  out  of  "  that  £400  that  Hadley  hath"  £100  was  to  be  paid 
Harvard  College.  In  the  gift  book  of  the  College,  Treasurer  Dan  forth 
in  his  account  from  1063  to  1008  acknowledges  the  receipt  of  £100  in 
corn  and  meal  and  charges  for  the  transportation  of  the  same  from 
Hartford  to  Boston  £7-6d. 

Report  of  School  Committee  of  the  city  of  Cambridge  for  the  year 
1885. 

The  Court  of  Chancery  in  the  decree  before  named  gave  judgment 
that  one-fourth  of  the  income  arising  from  this  fund  should  be  paid  to 
the  Grammar  School  in  Cambridge,  to  be  given  entirely  to  the  master 
in  consideration  of  his  instruction  in  Grammar  learning,  of  five  boys 
in  preparation  for  Harvard  College.  The  other  three-fourths  was  to 
be  paid  in  aid  of  students  in  divinity  in  Harvard  College  under  certain 
limitations. 

In  1839  the  Trustees  by  act  of  the  Legislature  were  authorized  to 
establish  the  "Hopkins  Classical  School"  from  which  time  payment 
to  the  Grammar  School  ceased.  The  school  thus  chartered  was  opened 
in  1840.  Terms  of  admission  fixed  by  the  visitors,  the  President  and 
Fellows  of  the  College  and  the  minister  of  the  First  church  in  Cam- 
bridge, were  the  same  as  those  required  for  admission  to  the  Boston 
Latin  School.  Act  of  1*39. 

This  school  was  discontinued  in  1854,  when  an  agreement  author- 
ized by  the  act  of  1839  was  entered  into  by  the  Trustees  and  the  city 
of  Cambridge.  The  Trustees  paying  annually  to  the  city  of  Cam- 
bridge the  one-fourth  of  the  income  of  their  funds  on  condition  that 
the  money  so  paid  over  shall  be  subject  to  the  order  of  the  school 
committee  of  said  city,  to  be  by  them  appropriated  exclusively  to  the 
improvement  of  the  means  of  classical  instruction  in  the  High  School 
under  their  charge.  This  agreement  is  still  in  force  but  may  be  termi- 
nated by  the  will  of  the  Trustees  whenever  they  re-open  the  Hopkins 
Classical  School.  Under  this  arrangement  the  treasurer  of  the  city 
of  Cambridge  received  from  the  Trustees  of  the  Hopkins  Charity  Fund 
from  1855  to  18S5  each  year,  a  sum  varying  from  8300  to  $958.93,  or 
an  overage  of  about  $720  yearly.  In  virtue  of  such  payment,  any 


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boys  not  more  than  nine  approved  by  the  visitors,  preparing  for  the 
university  are  to  enjoy  all  the  privileges  of  the  High  School  free  of 
charge.  See  report  of  the  school  committee  of  the  city  of  Cambridge 
for  the  year  1885.  From  this  source  chiefly  the  foregoing  statements 
concerning  the  Harvard  Fund  are  derived.  Here,  too,  is  found  a  copy 
of  the  decree  of  the  Court  of  Chancery. 

Thus  the  £500  which  by  the  agreement  of  the  Trustees  in  1  (>('>  1 
should  be  divided  equally  between  New  Haven  and  Hartley  to  aid  in 
establishing  in  each  of  the  towns  a  Grammar  School,  was  never  so 
divided  but  found  its  way  to  Cambridge  to  establish  the  fund  whose 
income  has  been  and  still  is  used  in  aid  of  young  men,  students  at  the 
Grammar  School  or  University  in  that  town. 

In  the  year  1840  President  Quincey  of  Harvard  University 
published  a  history  of  that  institution.  In  this  history  the  author 
makes  mention  of  Edward  Hopkins  as  among  "the  principal  bene- 
factors of  Harvard  College.  His  noble  benHiccnce  stands  in  bold 
relief,  exceeded  by  that  of  none  of  his  contemporaries  in  original 
value,  Sir  Matthew  Holworthy  and  William  Stoughton  alone  excepted, 
and  at  the  present  day  greatly  surpassing  those  of  both,  in  amount 
and  efficiency."  No  copy  of  the  will  nor  extract  from  it,  nor  any 
allusion  to  the  doings  of  the  Trustees  under  it,  is  found  in  these  pages. 
He  speaks  of  the  will  as  showing  the  qualities  that  make  a  man 
beloved.  He  then  gives  this  abstract  of  its  contents  :  "  To  numerous 
friends  and  domestics  he  bequeathed  legacies  amounting  to  four 
thousand  pounds  sterling  ;  to  institutions  in  Connecticut,  for  the  pro- 
motion of  religion,  science  or  charity,  one  thousand  pounds  sterling. 
For  the  advancement  of  the  sanie  noble  objects  in  Massachusetts,  the 
bequest  of  five  hundred  pounds,  vested  in  Trustees  was  destined  to 
find  its  sphere  of  usefulness  in  Harvard  College  or  its  vicinity.  After 
an  unceasing  flow  of  annual  benefits  for  more  than  a  century,  his 
bounty  now  exists  on  a  foundation  of  productive  and  well-secured 
capital  amounting  to  nearly  thirty  thousand  dollars."  This  legacy 
was  not  readily  paid,  but  was  obtained  by  the  decree  in  Chancery,  of 
which  note  has  been  taken. 

"In  June,  1709,  the  corporation  took  measures  to  secure  the  legacy 
of  Edward  Hopkins.  More  than  fifty  years  had  elapsed  since  the 
death  of  this  benefactor  and  his  heirs  interposed  obstacles  which  ren- 
dered the  pursuit  of  the  claims  of  the  College  troublesome  and  expensive 
and  final  success  dubious.  Not  deterred  by  these  difficulties,  the 
corporation  appointed  Henry  Newman  of  London  their  agent,  and 


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remitted  forty  pounds  sterling  for  the  promotion  of  their  rights.  The 
object  was  pursued  with  perseverance  and  a  favorable  decree  in 
Chancery  obtained  in  March,  1712-13  by  which  eight  hundred  pounds 
sterling,  the  amount  of  the  principal  legacy  with  the  accumulated 
interest  was  vested  in  aboard  of  Trustees  and  by  them  laid  out  in  the 
purchase  of  a  tract  of  land  to  which  the  name  of  Hopkinton  was  given 
in  honor  of  the  donor." 

History  of  Harvard  University,  Vol.  1,  pp.  204-5. 

In  this  history  repeated  mention  has  been  made  of  the  £500  that, 
by  agreement  of  the  Trustees  of  Gov.  Hopkins,  Davenport  and  Good- 
win, should  come  to  New  Haven  and  Hadley  on  the  death  of  Mrs. 
Hopkins.  This  event  was  long  delayed  and  prospect  of  anything  to 
come  from  the  estate  grew  uncertain.  When  it  came,  little  or  no  note 
was  taken  of  it.  The  New  Haven  Trustees  moved  in  the  matter  too 
feebly  and  too  late  to  accomplish  anything.  Evidence  is  wanting 
that  the  Hadley  committee  were  in  anywise  advised  of  the  situation 
or  made  any  movement  in  the  matter.  There  was  none  to  contest  the 
payment  of  the  claim  to  the  only  party  making  it. 

The  equity  of  the  decision,  though  acquiesced  in  by  those  interested, 
is  not  universally  conceded.  *In  his  letter  written  Jan.  1,  1759,  Col. 
Israel  Williams  of  Hatfield  gives  expression  to  a  sense  of  the  inequity 
of  this  disposition  of  this  £500  and  raises  the  question  whether  after 
so  long  a  time  it  is  too  late  to  have  the  decree  overruled  and  so  have 
the  right  prevail.  Thus  far  nothing  has  come  of  the  suggestion. 

See  Review'  of  Pres.  Quincy's  History  of  Harvard  University  in 
American  Biblical  Repository  for  Jan.,  1842,  pp.  175-185.  Address 
of  L.  W.  Bacon  at  the  200th  anniversary  of  the  founding  of  the 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  at  New  Haven,  pp.  28-29. 

*Col.  Israel  Williams  of  Hatlield  is  the  man  whose  name  appears  pp.  7(5-77.  He  was 
graduated  at  Harvard  College  in  1727.  He  commanded  one  of  the  Hampshire  regiments 
in  the  French  war.  He  was  member  ot  the  Council  and  Judge  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Picas.  lie  was  first  cousin  of  Ephraim  Williams  founder  of  Williams  College.  He  was  a 
loyalist  during  the  Revolution.  He  was  called  the  monarch  of  Hampshire  County. 
Among  his  papers  in  possession  of  Mass.  Hist.  Society  is  a  draft  of  a  charter  by  the  Gov- 
ernor incorporating  himself  and  eleven  others  as  President  and  Fellows  of  Queens  College. 
The  charter  was  never  granted.  The  College  had  a  being  only  on  paper.  Col.  Williams 
died  in  1788,  aged  79.  Proceedings  of  Mass  Hist.  Soc.,  Vol.  XX.,  p.  47. 


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INDEX. 


PAGE 

Allen,  Rev.  Dr.  William     .....  .85 

Allen,  John  ........  10 

Allis,  Lieut.  John,  heard  the  case  of  Robt.  Boltwood  and  school   committee, 

40,  41,  42,  (51 

Allyn,  Mr.  Matthew  .      20,  24 

Adams,  Rev.  Leonard        ....  .  147 

Adams,  Rev.  Stephen  B.  ...  147 

Andrews,  Rev.  David          ...  .  143 

Ashmun,  Hon.  Goo.,  M.  C.,  .  140.  151 

Austin,  Samuel  H.  .  149 

A  very,  Rev.  William  F.  .  .  140 

Ayres,  Rev.  Rowland,  D.  1).,         ... 

3,  110,  114,  117,  120,  122,  127,  128,  129,  137,  188,  139 
Ayres,  Alice  J.        .  .  .  154 

Ayres,  Edward        .  .  .  .  .  141,  150 

Ayres,  Edith  J.       .  145,  155 

Ayres,  David  C.      .  .  155 

Bacon,  Andrew       .  .  .  .  .  .        .    27,  39,  92 

Bacon,  Rev.  L.  W.,  D.  D.,  Address  at  New  Haven,  quoted  or  referred  to 

7,  18,  23,  20,  09,  170,  183 

Baker,  Edward  A.  141 

Ball,  Rev.  Dyer,  M.  D.,     .  140 

Ball,  Rev.  Mason  140 

Ball,  II  em  an,  .....  74 

Ballard,  Rev.  Addison,  D.  D.,  4,  140 

Banister,  Rev.  S.  W.  142 

Bardwell,  Dea.  Baxter  E.  138 

Bardwell,  Miss  Emma  C.  145,  154 

Barker,  Edmund  P.  ......  143 

Barnard,  John,  Bequest  for  a  school, 

28,  29,  30,  31,  43,  49,  50,  53,  55,  90,  93,  94,  103,  104 
Barnard,  Widow     ....  .39,  53,  54,  55 

Barnard,  Francis     .....  28 

Barnard,  Henry,  Esq.,  writings  referred  to,  .      18.  19 

Barnard,  Henry,  one  of  town  committee  to  demand  rents,  etc.,          .  43 

Barrows,  Miss  Cornelia  C.  145 


185 

Bartlett,  Rev.  Lymau  .  148 

Bnssett,  Rev.  Isaac  A.        .  147 

Batchelcler,  George  II.,  M.  D.,      .  108 

Bates,  Hon.  Isaac  C.,  Trustee,  80;  chosen  to  frame  by-laws,  80;  to  negotiate 
sale  of  lands,  107;  counsel  for  Hopkins  Academy  before  supreme  court,  1)7 
Bates,  Joseph,  M.  D.,  .  148 

Bates,  George  A.,  M.  D.,  14!) 

Bay ne,  Rev.  John  S.  .  ...  138 

Beaman,  Rev.  W.  H.  110,  114,  122,  127,  137 

Beaman,  Miss  Emma  W.  .  .  145 

Beaman,  John  W.  .  ......  155 

Beaman,  Miss  Mina  D.,  Mrs.  Rev.  John  I).  Willard,     .  .  154 

Beaman,  Edward  H.,  M.  D.,          .  149 

Belcher,  Susan  C.,  Mrs.  Chas.  S.  Thomson,  M.  1).,      .  .  153 

Bell,  Rev.  James  M.  .  .  138 

Bell,  Mrs.  Martha  L.  .  145 

Benjamin,  Prof.  Reuben  M.  140 

Bentley,  Mr.  Jasper  .  .  .74 

Berry,  Thomas,  M.  1).,       ...  71 

Billings,  Miss  Louisa  S.,  Mrs.  Rev.  Ezekiel  Russell,  I).  D.,     .  142 

Billings,  Miss  Mary  W.      .  .  142 

Blair,  Miss  Dolly  142 

Blake,  Rev.  Mortimer,  D.  D.,       .  131),  142 

Blake,  Horace  T.  143 

Boltwood,  Robert,  miller,  rebuilds  the  corn-mill,  30,37,  38;  negotiations  con- 
cerning the  mill,  his  death,  .  .  .  .  .      41,  59 

Boltwood,    Samuel,  30;  ditt'erences   with  school   committee  concerning  mill 

adjusted,  .      41,  42,  GO,  01 

Boardman,  Rev.  Daniel      ...  70 

Bond.  Thomas  II.  .  149 

Bonney,  Franklin,  M.  D.,  committee  to   confer  with   trustees  of   Hopkins 

Academy,  109,  120,  127,  129,  131,  138,  139,  149;  building  committee,      131 

Bonney,  George.  W.  .....  152 

Bonney,  Rev.  Elijah  H.     .  143,  147 

Bowdoin,  Elbridge  G.  .  .  .  .  149 

Brewster,  E.  H.       .  .  151 

Bridgman,  Rev.  Elijah  C.,  D.  I).,  .  .  .  140 

Bridgman,  Rev.  James  G.  147 

Bridgman,  Rev.  Henry  M.  .  .  149 

Brooks,  Sidney,  M.  D.,      .  148 

Brooks,  Rev.  Edward  F.  .  147 

Brown,  Frederick  .  .  .  lf>r> 

Bragg,  Rev.  Jesse  K.  .  .  .  142 

Brown,  Rev.  John,  D.  D.,  137 

Brown,  Miss  Lucy  Ann      .  142 

Bruer,  Lycortas  L.  .  .  142 

Buck,  Augustus  H.  140 


186 

Buck,  Mrs.  C.  L.     .             .  144 

Buerger,  John  F.                 .             .  .             .             .                          .144 

Bull,  Lieut.  John,  return  to  order  of  court,  19 ;  appointed   to  iiianaiii-  Gov. 

Hopkins'  estate,            .  .                                                  20,  20,  176 

Bullard,  Rev.  Amos             .             .  .                                         142,  14G 

Bullarcl,  Eunice  W.,  Mrs.  Henry  Ward  Beecher,  153 

Bullard,  Rev.  Ebenezer  W.  .                                                142 

Case,  Elmer             .  ...                       141 

Caldwell,  Rev.  David  142 

Chandler,  Charles  H.          .  141 

Champney,  Hosp.  Steward,  Win.  A.  .                                                             150 

Chapin,  Rev.  Sewel  74 

Chapin,  Rev.  Horace  B.     .  137 

Chapin,  Rev.  Lucius  D.      .  140 

Chapin,  L.  C.,  M.  D.,         .  144 

Chapman,  Henry,  Esq.,      .  149 

Chauncey,  Rev.  Nathaniel  .             .                         .70 

Chauncey,  "  Mr.  Chauncey's  son,"  ...                         .71 

Chauncey,  Israel     .....  71 

Chesebrough,  Rev.  Amos  S.,  D.  D.,  .                                                             139 

Chester,  Rev.  John,  D.  D.,  75 

Church,  Austin,  M.  D.,      .  14s 

Church,  Miss  Hannah  B.  143 

Clapp,  Rev.  Dexter  147 

Clapp,  Rev.  Luther  147 
Clarke,  Henry,2G,  27  ;  legacy,    29,  30,  31,  37,  44,  49,  53,  91,  92,  93,  94.  104,  100 

Clark,  William        .                         .  .            .                         .      42,  45 

Clark,  Rev.  Tertius,  D.  D.,  140 

Clark,  Alonzo,  M.  D.,         .  1 4,s 

Clark,  Lincoln,  M.  C.,        .  149 

Clark,  Theodore  151 

Clark,  Rev.  Clinton  147 

Clark,  Rev.  Solomon                      .  .     .      147 

Clark,  Miss  Abigal  142 
Clark,  Lucy  Ann,  Mrs.  L.  1).  Seymour,  M.  I)., 

Clark,  Miss  Mary  143 

Clark,  Miss  Lepha  N.  154 

Clark,  Miss  Juliette            .  145 

Clark,  Asa,  Jr.,       .  155 

Clark,  Corp.  John  C.  150 

Clark,  Charles  W.  150 

Clark,  Miss  Clara  W.  145 

Condit,  Rev.  Joseph  D.      .            .  .             .             .             .            .137 

Conkey,  Hon.  Ithamar  F.  .                                    149 
Cooley,  Miss  Genevieve     .......           145 

Coolidge,  Dea.  Nathaniel  .                                                130 

Coolidge,  Miss  Sarah  P.     .  143 


1ST 

Cooke,  Ensign  and  Capt.  Aaron 

33,  34,  30,  3!),  40,  42,  43,  44,  46,  47,  61,  02,  GO,  91,93,  94,  'Jo 
Cooke,  Westwood,  .......  08 

Cooke,  Capt.  Moses  .  68 

Cooke,  Mr.  Euos    ...  .  .  74 

Cooke,  Rev.  Parsons,  D.  D.,  .  .  14G 

Cooke,  Rev.  Noah.  .  .  .  .  .  14(5 

Cooke,  Rev.  Sylvester        .  .  14G 

Cooke,  Ephraim,  M.  D.,     .  148 

Cooke,  Silas,  M.  D.,  148 

Cooke,  Horace         .  138,  151 

Cooke,  Charles        .  .  .  138,  151 

Cooke,  Rev.  Herbert  Jonathan      .  141,  148 

Cooke,  Miss  Jane  A.  .  .  .  143 

Cooke,  Miss  Lucy  A.  145 

Cooke,  Col.  John  E.  .  155 

Cooke,  Corp.  Rufus  A.  .  156 

Cooke,  Alfred  L.    .  150 

Cooke,  Eleazer        .  .  156 

Cooke,  S.  Parsons  .  .  .156 

Corss,  Rev.  Charles  C.  .  143,  146 

Crossett,  Miss  Mary  A.  ....  143 

Cullick,  Mr.  and  Capt.  John,  trustee  under  Edward  Hopkins'  will,     . 

10,  12,  13,  10,  11),  20,  21,  22,  23,  24,  20,  28,  38,  90 

Curtis,  Rev.  Joseph  W.      .  .  110,  114,  115,  110,  137 

Curtis,  Judge  Joseph  S.  .  .  .  .  .  .  149 

Cushman,  Rev.  Martin       .......  14(; 

Dalley,  Henry,  executor  of  Edward  Hopkins'  will,        .  11,  20,  24,  28,  179 

Danforth,  treasurer  Harvard  College  receives  £100,     .  .  181 

Danforth,  Rev.  Franicis    .....  .137 

Daugherty,  Caroline,  Mrs.  Rev.  William  M.  Richards,  .  .  153 

Davenport,  Rev.  John,  vicar  in  London,  etc.,  0;  life   and  character,  13,  14; 

emigrates  to  America,  13;  settles  at  New  Haven  pastor  of  the  church,  13; 

friend  of   Gov.  Hopkins   and  trustee  under  his  will,  18,  21,  22,  23,  24; 

agreement  concerning  the  estate,  25,  27,  28,  29,  33,  38,  39,  07,  90,  91,  92, 

93,  100,  103,  173,  174,  170,  179,  183 

Davenport,  Jesse  R.  .  .  122,  127,  129,  138,  141 

Dickinson,  Dea.  Nathaniel,  30,  31 ;  chosen  by  the  town  1009  one  of  committee 
of  five,  33 ;  signs  Davenport  and  Goodwin's  agreement,  27 

Dickinson,  Nehemiah,  one  of  a  committee  of  town  to  procure  a  school-mas- 
ter, etc.,  ....  ...  43 

Dickinson,  Capt.  Elisha     .  .  ....  68 

Dickinson,  Rev.  Benjamin  .  ....  71 

Dickinson,  Mr.  John  .  .  .  74 

Dickinson,  Dea.  William  .  .    68,  136 

Dickinson,  Dea.  Elisha      .  137 

Dickinson,  Dea.  Simeon     .  137 


188 

Dickinson,  Elizabeth,  Mrs.  Horace  Goodrich,    .  152 

Dickinson,  Maria  P.,  Mrs.  Rev.  L.  Sabin,  D.  1).,  158 

Dickinson,  Harriet,  Mrs.  Rev.  E.  W.  Bullard,    .  153 

Dickinson,  Mary  B.,  Mrs.  J.  P.  Kimball,  154 

Dickinson,  Dea.  George     .  35,  11G,  137,  150 

Dickinson,  Mr.  William  P.  137 

Dickinson,  Rev.  William  E.  147 

Dickinson,  Edward,  M.  D.,  148 

Dickinson,  Miss  Alice  E.  154 

Dickinson,  George  155 

Dickinson,  Levi  P.  15(5 

Dickinson,  Charles  F.        .  15(5 

Dickinson,  Luther  W.        .  15(5 

Dowse,  Joseph  Perry        .  144 

Dudley,  Pres. Joseph,  46;  letter  to  Mr.  Russell,  .      57,  58 

Dudley,  George       .  141 

Dunakin,  Corp.  Henry  Alonzo  15(5 

Dunakin,  Henry      .  15(5 

Dunbar,  Rev.  John  146 

Dunbar,  John  B.     .  156 

Dwight,  Rev.  Daniel     .     .  71 

D  wight,  Nancy,  Mrs.  Austin  Church,  M.  D.,  153 

Dwight,  Mr.  Timothy        .  13!> 

Dwight,  Rev.  E.  S.,  D.  D.,  3,  !3,s 

Dwight,  Miss  Mary  142 

Dwight,  Wm.  W.,  M.  D.,  148 

Dwight,  John  E.,  M.  D.,  11'.' 

Eastman,  Dea.  Joseph  68 

Eastman,  Henry      .  150 

Eaton,  Gov.    Theophilus,    called   father  by   Gov.    Hopkins    in  His  will,  10; 

trustee  under  the  will,  10,  90;  sole  governor  of  New  Haven  colony,  12; 

character,         .  .      12,  10 

Edson,  Rev.  H.  K.  140,  147 

Edson,  Almira,  Mrs.  Rev.  Hall  and  Mrs.  Geo.  Atwood,  M.  D.,  153 

Edson,  Hon.  Francis  151,  171 

Edwards,  Rev.  Bela  B.,  D.  D.,     .  14C. 
Emery,  Rev.  S.  H. 
Emerson,  Miss  Felicia 

Enderton,  Corp.  Charles  S.  156 
Farmington, 
Farnham,  Rev.  Lucian 
Ferguson,  Rev.  John 

Fisher,  O.  14° 
Fiske,  Miss  Mary  W. 
Fleming,  Geo.  C.,  M.  D., 

Fleming,  Louis  I.  149 

Gage,  Rev.  Rodney  147,  155 


189 

(i;iy.  Krv.  Kbenezer  .  .  .71 

(J:iylord,  Mr.  Samuel  G8 

Gnvlord,  Miss  Lucy  B.       .  148 

Gay  lord,  Miss  Martha  R.  .  145 

Gillett,  Hon.  Edward  B.    .  149,  152 

Goodwin,  Elder  William,  arrives  in  Boston,  settles  at  Cambridge,  14;  free- 
man ruling  elder,  etc.,  14,  15;  removes  to  Hartford,  14;  character,  14,  34; 
trustee  under  Gov.  Hopkins'  will,  10;  removes  to  Hadlcy,  10,  17;  dies  in 
Farming-ton,  34;  doings  at  Hartford  concerning  the  Hopkins  estate,  18— 
27:  at   Hadley,    32—35,  28,  37,  38,  39,  40,  51,  54,  90,  91,  92,  93,  100,  101, 

102,  103,  104,  10G,  173,  174,  17(i,  179 
Gould,  Rev.  Vinson  .  .  .  .  .  .  136 

Granger,  L.  N.  .  .  .  .  .  126,  131,138,  160 

Gray,  Rev.  Mr.  .  .74 

Gray,  Edwin  C.     ' .  .  ...  .  .  156 

Greene,  Rev.  John  M.,  D.  D.,       .  .  .  .  147 

Grimes,  Mr.  Samuel  ......  74 

Gurley,  Rev.  John  .......  74 

Hadley,  town  of,  grants   meadow   lands    for  a  school,  30,  31 ;  accepts   Mr. 
Goodwin's  proposal,  32,  34 ;  votes  to  take  estates,  etc.,  out  of  committees' 
hands,  etc.,  43;  votes  to  let  fall  this  former  vote,  61 ;  selectmen  censured 
and  warned  by  court  of  sessions,  61,  62;  appoints  committee  to  carry  out 
its  votes,  procure  a  school-master  etc.,  43;  sundry  votes   pertaining  to 
the  school,         ........     64—66 

Hadley,  town  of  j  vs.  trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy,  87 — 107;  in  conference 

with  trustees  of  Hopkins  Academy  with  reference  to  making  the  school 

free  to 'the  town  Chap,  xi,  ...  109—132 

Harcourt,  Sir  Symon,  Knight,  Lord  keeper  of  the  Great  Seal  of  England,  180 

Hall,  Aaron  B.  .  .  .142 

ITannum,  Arnold     .  .  .  .  .  .  .142 

Harvard  College,  £100  to  be  paid  from  the  Hopkins  estate,  27,  38,  181; 

claiming  and  gaining  £500  in  court  of  Chancery,  17,  180,  182,  183 

181,  182,  183 

Harvard  University,  Pres.  Quincey's  History  of  .  .  .182 

Harvey,  Rev.  Adiel  ......  142 

Haskell,  Miss  Charlotte  C.  145 

Haskell,  Miss  Eliza  C.,  Mrs.  Rev.  Edward  S.  Frisbec,  D.  D.,  145 

Hawkes,  Rev.  Theron  H.,  D.  D.,  .  .  .  144 

Hawley,  Joseph       .  .  42 

Hayward,  William  H.  .  .  .  .  .  .157 

Hammond,  John  C.  Esq.  .....  138 

II annum,  J.  Arnold  ....  142 

Heavens,  Francis  J.  .  .  141 

Henshaw,  Marshall,  LL.  P.,          .  140 

Hcnshaw,  Mrs.  Francis  J.  ...  .  144 

Henshaw,  Miss  Almira      .....  .143 

Hill,  Miss  145 


1(JO 

Hinsdale,  Miss  Harriet  A.,  Mrs.  Rev.  H.  L.  IIubbeH,  D.  1).,  144 

Hitchcock,  Dea.  C.  P.        .  137 

Hitchcock,  Rev.  Roswell,  D.  D.,  142 

Hodge,  Hannah  M.,  Mrs.  Rev.  James  Wilcox,  153 

Hodge,  Harriet  M.,  Mrs.  Hon.  Thos.  F.  Plunkctt,  153 

Hodge,  Charles  D.  150 

Hodge,  Corp.  Samuel        .  150 

Hodge,  William  H.  157 

Holmes,  Cyrus     .  .  139 

Hooker,  Rev.  Thomas,  pastor  of  the  church  at  Newtown  and  Hartford,      143 

7,  8,  14,  15 

Hooker,  Gen.  Joseph  .  155 

Hooker,  Sarah,  Mrs.  Rev.  M.  L.  R.  Thompson,  D.  D.,  153 

Hooker,  Miss  Mary  ....  .  143 

Hooker,  Sergt.  Lewis  B.  .....  157 

Hopkins,  Gov.  Edward,  birth  and   education,  0;  emigration   to  America,  0; 
settles  at  Boston  and  Hartford,  6;  charcter,  0,  7,  9,182;  Gov.  of  Connec- 
ticut, successful  merchant,  7;  returns  to  England,  death,  8;  his  will,  10, 
11 ;  his  trustees,  their  disposal  of  his  estate,  18 — 27 

Hopkins,  Mrs.  Anna,  8,  9;  provision  for  her   in  her  husband's  will,   11;  her 
death,  ....  .  17!) 

Hopkins  Fund,  sequestered  by  Gen.  Court  of  Connecticut  IS— 25;  linal  settle- 
ment and  distribution  by  Davenport  and  Goodwin,  .  .     24 — 27 
Hopkins  Fund  and  School  at  Hartford,  170—178;  New  Haven,  174,  175 
Hopkins  Fund  at  Harvard  College  and  Cambridge  Grammar  school,    179 — is.", 
Hopkins  Fund  at  Hadlcy,  agreement  of   Mr.  Goodwin  and  town  concerning. 
32 — 34;  early  troubles  concerning  it  in  court  and  otherwise,         .     35—  03 
Hopkins  Grammar  School  at  Hadley,  names  of  school  committee,  07,  08 ;  roll 
of  teachers,      ........     09—75 

Hopkins  Academy,  charter  asked  by  committee  and  town  and  granted,  78 ; 

incorporation,  charter  and  by-laws,  .    78 — 83 

Hopkins  Academy,  building  erected,  84-86;  dedicated  and  school  opened  in  it. 

86 :  burned,       ....  .  121 

Hopkins  Academy,  trustees  .  130-139 

Hopkins  Academy,  principal  teachers,  139-141 ;  assistants,      .  141-145 

Hokkins  Academy,  pupils,  roll  of  honor,  140-157;  roll  of  graduates  receiving 
diplomas,  102-163;  present  membership,  Jan.  1,  1890,       .  .  104 

Hopkins  Academy  in  the  supreme  court,  town  of  Hadley  vs.  trustees  of  Hop- 
kins Academy,  report  of  the  case,  .  .  .  87-107 
Hopkins  Academy, in  conference  with  the  town  with  reference  to  making  the 
school  free  to  the  town  Chap,  xi,     .  109-132 
Hopkins  Academy,  changes  in  the  fund,  etc.,  105  et  seq  ;  present  and  former 
condition,  estimated  value  of  property,        .                         .            .   109-170 
Hopkins,  Rev.  Samuel,  D.  D.,      .  77 
Hopkins,  Lewis,  M.  D.,     .                                                                                      148 
Hosforcl,  Rev.  Henry  B.    .                                                                             140,  144 


11)1 

Ilosfonl,  Miss  .Louisa         .  .....  144 

Hosford,  Maj.  James  M.  .  .  .  .145 

Hovcy,  Lieut.  Thomas       .......  68 

Howard,  Clianncey  .  .....  142 

Ilubbard,  Mr.  Edmund       .......  08 

Ilubbard,  Rev.  John  .  ....  70 

Hubbard,  Moses      .  .  .  .  .  .  .  74 

Hubbard,  Dea.  George  W.,  ....      4,  151 

Hnbbard,  Fordyce  M.,  D.D.,  .  ...  146 

Ilubbard,  Wallace  A.  .  .  .  .  .  .156 

Hubbard,  Franklin  ....  156 

Ilubbard,  Oscar  11.  .......  156 

Humphrey,  Rev.  Zephaniah  M.,  D.D.,     .  .  147 

Humphrey,  Miss  Lucy,  Mrs.  Rev.  Henry  Neill,  D.D.,  .  .  153 

Hunn,  Rev.  David  L.          .  .        v    .  .  .  .  .  137 

Huntington,  Rev.  Dan        ......  136,  139 

Hnntington,  Judge  C.  P.  .  .  149 

Hnntington,  Rev.  William  P.  146 

Hniitiiigton,  Theodore  G.  .....  128,  138 

ITuntingtoii,  lit.  Rev.  Frederic  D.,  D.D.,  .  .  .147 

riuntington,  Miss  Elizabeth  P.     .  ....  142 

Hutchinson,  Rev.  Horace,  .....  140,  142 

Isliam,  Rev.  Austin  .......  143 

James,  Rev.  John  .......  71 

Janes.  Rev.  Justus  L.  ....  147 

Jenkins,  Rev.  Abraham      .  .  147 

Jewett,  Lieut.  John  Howard         .  .  .  .  .  152,  156 

Jones,  Major  George          .  ....  156 

Johnson,  Aholiab,  Esq..  .  .  .  .  149 

Johnson,  Chester,  M.  D.,  .  .  .  .  148 

Johnson,  Miss  Laura  R.     .  ...  145 

Johnson,  Rev.  Myron  A.  ....  148 

Johnson,  Edward  .......  156 

Johnson,  Herbert  F.  .  .  156 

Johnson,  Clifton  C.  .  ....  152 

Judd,  Rev.  Sylvester,  Jr.,  .  147 

Judd,  Rev.  Jonathan  8.      .  .  147 

Kellogg,  Joseph  .  .  67 

Kellogg,  Giles  C.,  Esq.,     .  .  .     75,141 

Kellogg,  Rev.  Gardiner      .  ....  74 

Kellogg,  Rev.  Bela  .  ...  75 

Kidder,  Rev.  Pascal,  P.P.,  .  .  147 

Kilburn,  Mr.  He/ekiah       .  .  .  .  .  .  71 

Kingsley,  Krissa,  Mrs.  Eli  Moody,  .  .  .153 

Kingsley,  Elbridge  .  .  .  .152 

Lamsou,  Charles  E.  .....  138 

Lainson,  Charles  M.,  D.D.,  ....  .148 

25 


192 

Lane,  Rev.  John  W.            ....  133 

Little,  Miss  Mary  Ann        ....  142 

Lobdell,  Rev.  Henry,  M.  D.,         .             .             .             .  J40 

Lord.  Rev.  Henry                 ....  130 

Lord,  Rev.  Charles  ....  143    [47 

Loud,  Watson,  M.  D.,  '  143 
Lyman.  Rev.  Joseph,  P.  D.,                •     .                                                    .    80    13G 
Ly man,  Hon.  Jonathan  H.             .            .            .                                        ];>><;,  11:7 

Lyman,  Clarissa  J.,  Mrs.  Rev.  John  II.  Bisbre.  153 

Lyman.  Rev.  George           .....  147 

Lyman,  Jabez  B.,  M.  D.,                .             .             .  j^ 

Lyman,  John  Chester,  M.  D.,        .             .  II;, 

Lyman,  Rev.  Timothy        ...  147 

Lyman,  Charles  F.              ....  15(] 

Lyon.  Merrick,  LL.  P.,      .             .             .  150 

Lyon,  Lucius,  M.  P.,  149 

McClung,  Matthew             ....  I O 

Mann,  Rev.  Asa                     ....  14;>, 

Marsh,  Ensine  Moses          ....  <;s 

Marsh,  Job                            .             .             .  <-(S 

Marsh,  Rev.  Jonathan        ......  70 

Marsh,  Rev.  I).  W.,  D.D.,             .  147 

Marsh,  Rev.  Loren  B.  147 

Marsh,  Prof.  Charles  D.                 .             .             .  ir,0 

Marshall,  Jonathan  B.  143 
Mather,  Rev.  Cotton.     His  Magnalia  quoted  concerning  Gov.   Hop- 
kins, 7,8,  0;    concerning   Mrs.  Hopkins,  s  : 
concerning  Gov.  Eaton,  12. 
Mather,  Judge  Warham     .....                         .70 

Mather,  Rev.  Nathaniel     ...  71 

Mather,  Rev.  Richard  IL,  D.I).,                .  150 

May  hew,  Miss  Abby  C.                                            .  144 

Melyen,  Rev.  Samuel           .              .                            ...  70 

Merrill,  Miss  Eliza                           .  142 

Mighill,  Samuel                    ...  70 

Miller,  Rev.  Simeon            ...  14" 

Mitchell,  Walter  G.            .  141 

Mitchell,  W.  W.                   .  141 

Montague,  Prof.  William  L.  ir.o 

Morse,  Rev.  John                ...  70 

Morton,  John  A.                   .             .             .              .  j;>(s 

Morton,  John  A.,  Jr.,         ....  155 

Morton,  L.  M.                      .             .             .  144 

Mosely,  Miss  Sophia           .  141 

Murdock,  Miss  Thankful                .             .  142 

Nash,  Lieut.  Enos                ....  08 

Nash,  Dea.  Enos                 ....  68 

Nash,  Rev.  John  A.  .  .  .  .  .  .  139,  146 


198 

Nash,  Samuel.  Ks»|.,  committee  of  the  Town  to  confer  with  the  Trus- 
tees of  Hopkins  Academy,          .             .  109,120 
Nash,  Judge  Simeon,  Jr.,               .                           ....  14!) 

Nash.  Miss  Maria  W.,  Mrs.  James  H.  Hackletou,          .             .             .  154 

Nash,  Capt.  Edwin  S.         .....  155 

Nash.  Rev.  Francis  L.        .             .  Ms 

Nash,  Miss  Isabella  S.                                   .                           .  145 

Nelson,  Rev.  William  F.  142 

Nichols,  George      .              .             .              .             .             .              .              .  131) 

Newman,  Henry,  agent  of  Harvard  College  to  secure  legacy  of  £500,  171),  182 

Norton,  Rev.  Thomas  S.                 .             .             .             .             .  147 

Orr,  William,  Jr.,                             .  143 

Osborn,  Orson,  M.  1).,        .....  14s 

Packard,  Miss  Louisa         .                          .  142 

I'tUnier,  Francis  L.               .                           .              .             .  143 

Partrigg,  Samuel,  Colonel,    Representative,  Judge  of  Probate,  etc., 
taught  Hopkins  School,  70;    favored  an  English 
School,  45  ;  reasons  given,  52-57,  41,  42,  43,  44,  46, 
47;  dissmissed  from  school  committee,  50. 

I'artrigg,  John                       .             .             .             .              .  70 

Partridge,  Joseph  L.          .             .             .             .             .             .  150 

Partridge,  Rev.  George  C.                           .  14C 

Pasco,  Miss  Maria  L.         .....                          .  145 

Fasco,  Rev.  Martin  K.        .  14s 

Pearl,  Prof.  Joshua  F.                                                                         .             .  150 

Penney,  Rev.  Joseph,  !).!).,.                          .             .             .  137 

Perkins,  Rev.  Nathan         .  .  .  .  ...          136 

Perry,  Marshall  1).,  M.  1)..  14s 

Perry,  Miss                           .             .  145 

Phelps,  Caroline,  Mrs.  Rev.  S.  G.  Bullfinch,       .  15;; 

Phelps,  Charlotte,  Mrs.  Rev.  Mason  P.  Bartlett.  153 

Phelps,  Mr.  Charles            .             .             .    •         .             .  •  (is 

Phelps,  Francis                    .....  150 

Phelps,  Theophilus                            ....                           .  151 

Phillips,  Rev.  Daniel          .....  145 

Pierce,  Master  Josiah,  teacher,  preacher,  town  clerk,  etc.,       .             .  71,  72 

Taught  Hopkins  Grammer  School,  covenant  with  school  committee,.  72,  7:'. 

Taught  in  Amherst,  Northampton  and  South  Hadley,        .             .  73,  74 

Pierce,  William  Martin       .......  150 

Pierce,  Dea.  John  N.          .....  .138 

Pierce,  Miss  Cynthia  M.  .  .  .  .  .  .145 

Pomeroy,  Miss  Emily,  Mrs.  Rev.  David  Eastman,         .             .  143,  153 

Poor,  Rev.  Daniel  W.,  D.I).,         .              .  147 

Porter,  Samuel,  Esq.,         ....  67 

Porter,  Hon.  Eleazer          .......  68 

Porter,  Mr.  Eleazer             .......  ~         68 

Porter,  William,  M.  D.,     .                                                                              .  68,  136 


11)4 

Porter,  Col.  Moses              .  -    0,s.  KiO 

Porter,  Mr.  Elisha  08 

Porter,  Rev.  Aaron              .             .  70 

Porter,  Miss  Amy,  Mrs.  Rev.  Jos.  D.  Wickhuiu,  50 

Porter,  Dea.  Eleazer,         ....  138 

Porter,  James  B.,  Esq.,     .             .             .  I-''"' 

Porter,  Rev.  Jeremiah       .  1 40,  157 

Porter,  Lois  E.,  Mrs.  Dea.  Coolidge  and  Mrs.  Rev.  J.  W.  Curtis,       .           152 

Porter,  Susan,  Mrs.  Rev.  Lucian  Farnham,        .  .                                     153 

Porter,  Miss  Lucretia        ...  142 

Porter,  Miss  Augusta  A.                ...  145 

Porter,  Rev.  William,  D.D.,         .            .  147 

Porter,  Moses,  M.  D.,        .  148 

Porter,  Henry,  M.  D.,  148 

Porter,  Rev.  Edward  C.     .  14-8 

Porter,  Miss  Charlotte  W.  154 

Porter,  William  P. ,  Esq. ,  1  :J* 

Porter,  Miss  Emma  T.,  Mrs.  Rev.  Sereno  D.  Gammell,  154 

Pratt,  Rev.  Levi,                 .             .  UJ7 

Pratt,  James  O.                  .            .  144 

Proctor,  Miss                      .  142 

Powers,  Rev.  Henry           .  148 

Powers,  Miss  Sarah  W.,  Mrs.  Rev.  Benj.  Parsons,  .                            145,  154 
Pynchon,  Major  John,  heard  the  case  of  Sam'l  Boltwood,  41 ;  letter 

to  Mr.  Russell,  45 ;    return  to  President  and 
Council,  40,  47,  58,  59,  01,  02. 

Quincy,  President  Josiah,  History  of  Harvard  University,  174,  182,  183 

Read,  Hanson  L.                 .            .  144 

Reed,  Miss  Mary  A.            .            .  143 

Reed,  Miss  Mary,                .  145 

Richards,  Rev.  William  M.  140 

Riddle,  Rev.  Samuel  Hopkins       .•  140 

Robbins,  Rev.  Alden  B.,  D.  D.,  143 

Robinson,  Gov.  Charles,  M.  D.,  149,  152 

Rogers,  Daniel  W.              .  141 
Ruggles,  Rev.  Samuel 
Ruppaner,  Anton,  M.  D., 

Russell,  Rev.  John,  first  minister  of  Hartley,  02,  03;  school  commit- 
tee, 27,  30,  32,  33,  34,  35,  30,  31),  40;  reasons  to 
Pres't  and  Council,  48  et  seq.,  43,  44,  45,  92,  1)3, 
94,  95. 

Russell,  Rev.  Samuel          .  01) 

Russell,  Rev.  Ezekiel,  D.D.,  4,  133,  139 

Scott,  Aaron  155 

Scott,  Rufus  P.  155 

Sabin,  Rev.  Lewis,  D.D.,  139 

Sanderson,  John  P.  1»9,  1,43 


195 

San  ford,  lion.  John  E.  .                         144 

Si-t-ly u,  Kev.  L.  Clark,  D.I).,          .  148 

Seymour,  Hf.v.  Henry         .                           .  .4,  148,  147 

Seymour,  Susan  S.,  Mrs.  Maj.  James  M.  llosi'ord,  .             .             .           153 
Seymour,  Edwin     ........           155 

Seymour,  Uev.  John  A.      .             .             .             .  .             .             .           144 

Seymour  Henry  M.                                                     ,  .                                     152 

Seymour,  Levi  J).,  M.  1).,  149 

Shed,  James  A.,  Esq.,         ...  ...           149 

Sherman,  George                ..             .             .             .  .             .             .           141 

Slmmway,  Rev.  Columbus              .  ...           145 

Shipmau,  William  S.  .       122,  126,  127 

Shipman,  William  N.  .155 
Smith,  Lieut.  Samuel,  school  committee,          27,  31,  32,  33,  34,  35,  92,  93,  173 

Smith,  Dea.  Philip              ...  .39,  67,  93 

Smith,  Chileab,  03 ;  appointed  by  Court,             .  .                          60,  67,  95 

Smith,  Sargeant  Joseph     ...  68 

Smith,  Dea.  John                .                         .....  68 

Smith,  Dea.  David  .             68 

Smith,  Dea.  Oliver  .                         .            68 

Smith,  Dea.  Seth  .                          68 

Smith,  Windsor,  Esq.,       .....  .85 

Smith,  Dea.  Jacob              .  .    68,  136 

Smith,  Rev.  Joseph                          .  .                                       70 

Smith,  Mr.  John                   .......  74 

Smith,  Rev.  Worthington,  D.D.,              .  .                                    139 

Smith,  Dea.  Sylvester        ...  .137 

Smith,  Dudley,  Esq.,          .  137 

Smith,  Capt.  Elijah  137 

Smith,  Dea.  Rodney,          .             .  138 

Smith,  Catharine  A.,  Mrs.  Dr.  Jones,      .  152 

Smith,  Oliver  E.                  .  138 

Smith,  Hon.  Hinsdale,        .  .           151 

Smith,  Rev.  Henry  B.,  D.D.,         .  .85 

Smith,  Miss  Sophia            .  150,  173 

Smith,  Miss  Mary  D,  .           143 

Smith,  Miss  Sarah  A.         .                                      .  143 

Smith,  Miss  Miranda          .                                      .  .144 

Smith,  Julia,  Mrs.  Lincoln  Clark,             .  152 

Smith,  Elizabeth  PL,  Mrs.  Rev.  William  Harvey,  .           152 

Smith,  Esther,  Mrs.  Rev.  John  Dunbar,  .             .           153 

Smith,  Martha,  Mrs.  Rev.  O.  G.  Hubbard,  153 

Smith,  Miranda,  Mrs.  Rev.  Pomeroy  Beldeii,     .  .                         .153 

Smith,  Margaret,  Mrs.  Rev.  E.  W.  Bullard,       .  .                       153 

Smith,  Julia,  Mrs.  John  W.  Blodgett,  M.  D.,  .             .           153 

Smith,  Lydia,  Mrs.  Henry  E.  Ide,            .....  153 

Smith,  Susan  H.,  Mrs.  E.  P.  Richardson,  152 


196 

Smith,  Maria  P.,  Mrs.  Capt.  J.  Richardson, 

Smith,  Mary,  Mrs.  Phelps, 

Smith,  Helen  M.,  Mrs.  Henry  S.  Stockbridge,  Jr.,  .                         .           154 

Smith,  Alice  T.,  Mrs.  Gerry,         ...  155 

Smith,  Louisa  A.,  Mrs.  Edwin  11.  Baxter,  M.  1).,  154 

Smith,  Horace  M.                ....  144 

Smith,  John  Woodbridge,  Esq.,                 .             .  .                         14!) 

Smith,  John              ...                           .  144 

Smith,  Miss  Abby  P.          .  145 

Smith,  Miss  Clarissa  145 

Smith,  Rev.  Horace  lit; 

Smith,  Rev.  Preserved       .  140 

Smith,  Henry  Parks  150 

Smith,  Rev.  Arthur  148 

Smith,  Lieut.  James  W.  155 

Smith,  H.  Fred,  M.  M.  I).,  141) 

Smith,  Frederic  E.,  Esq.,  I  It) 

Smith,  Lucius  1).                                         .  150 

Smith,  Samuel  D.                .             .  150 

Smith,  George  M.                             .             .  157 

Spaulding,  Adaline,  Mrs.  Rev.  M.  K.  Cross,       .  .           153 

Spear,  Rev.  C.  V.                .  140,  141 

Spencer,  Rev.  Ichabod  S.  137 

Spencer,  Rev.  Thomas       .             .             .             .  .            .             .147 

Stanwood,  Miss  Joanna                  .  .                          .           144 

Stearns,  Rev.  J.  G.  D.       .  130 

Stebbins,  Dea.  Edward      .  11),  20,  26,  170 

Stebbins,  Edward               .  131 

Steele,  Rev.  Stephen           .  71 

Stockbridge,  Hon.  Levi     .  .                                     151 

Stockbridge,  Henry  S.,  Esq.,         .  14!) 

Stockbridge,  Henry  S.,  Jr.,  M.C.,            .             .  .           154 
Stockbridge,  Sylvester       .......           140 

Stone,  Rev.  Samuel,  teacher  of  the  church  at  Newtown  and  Hartford 

he  and  Mr.  Goodwin  do  not  agree,         .  14,  15,  10 

Stone,  Rev.  William  B.      .            .             .             .  .             .             .147 

Stone,  Lucy,  Mrs.  Henry  B.  Blackwell,               .  .                                     153 

Strong,  Gov.  Caleb            .             .  70 

Strong,  Mr.                          .            .  74 

Strong,  Hon.  Joseph  130 

Strong,  Miss                        .....  142 

Strong,  Charles  L.              .             .  142 

Stuart,  Judge  William  Zephaniah             .....  142 

Taft,  John  A.          ...  140 

Taylor,  Mr.              .             .  73 

Taylor,  Oliver  S.,  M.  D.,  130 
Taylor,  Rev.  Samuel  A.                               .....           143 


197 

Taylor,  James  A.  .  ...  143 

Taylor,  Rev.  Ruf us,  I). D.,  .  147 

Thomson,  George  F.,  M.  D.,  .  .  .  .  .  149 

Tilton,  Dea.  and  Hon.  Peter.     A  first  Trustee  under  Gov.  Hopkins' 
will.  27,  30;  choice  of  the  town  at  the  instance  of  Mr. 
Goodwin,  32,  34 ;  defendant  in  Court  vs.  William  Good- 
win. 34.  35.  3f>,  39,  44,  45,  40,  47,  91,  92,  93. 
Tobey,  Miss  Elizabeth       ...  .  145 

Todd,  Rev.  John,  D.P.,  .  137 

Tower,  Rev.  J.  Edwin        .  .  .  148 

Tracy,  Mr.  Fanning,  .......  74 

Train,  Miss  .  .  .  144 

Treat,  Rev.  Salmon  .  .  .  70 

Tnttle,  George  A.,  M.  D.,  .  149 

Tnttle,  Prof.  Charles  A.  ...  150 

Tnttle,  Franklin  Elliot       ....  150 

Tuxbnry,  Rev.  Franklin    .  ....       122,  127,  137 

Yanhorn,  Alfred  ....  .  157 

Walker,  Rev.  G.  L.,  D.D.,  History  first  church  Hartford  referred  to,       15-17 

Ward,  Nathaniel,   Engagers  meet  at  his  house,  ...  29 

His  legacy,      .  .  .  29,  39,  50,  53,  94,  103 

Ward,  Lucretia  S-,  Mrs.  Judge  Oviatt,  ....          152 

Ward,  Mary  D.,  Mrs.  Rev.  Horace  Smith,          .  .  .  152 

Ware,  Lauriston,  Builder,  ...  .  132 

Warner,  Dea.  Andrew       .  .  .  .  .  14,  30,  31 

Warner,  Capt.  Oliver         .  ....  137 

Washburn,  Charles  E.,  M.  D.,      .  .  .143 

Waterbnry,  Rev.  J.  B.,  D.D.,       .  .  136 

Watson,  Caleb,  first  school  master,          .  .  .  .      53,  54,  50,  09 

Webber,  Rev.  George  N.,  D.D.,  ...  145 

Wedge,  Newel         ........  150 

West,  Parsons,  Esq.,  .       114,  122,  120 

West,  Lewis  W.  .  151,  156 

Whitakcr,  Mr.  Augustus  .  .  ...  144 

Whitaker,  J.  Edwin  .  144 

White,  Mr.  Ebenozer          ...  .  .74 

White,  Tirzah  M.,  Mrs.  Judge  Williamson,         ....  153 

White,  Frances  M.,  Mrs.  John  Kimball,  Esq.,  .  153 

White,  Abby  L.,  Mrs.  Rev.  William  Williams,  153 

White,  Prof.  George  H.  141 

Whitney,  Joseph,  Esq.,      .  107,  108 

Whitney,  Miss  Sarah  142 

Whitney,  Prof.  William  1).  .  .  150 

Wilcox,  Nathaniel  F.          .......  141 

Wilder.  Samuel  C.,  committee  of  town  to  confer  with  Trustees, 

121,  122,  123,  124,  138 
Willis,  William  H.,  M.D.,  (name  changed  from  Orrick)  .  149 


IDS 

Williston,  Miss  Sally          .  .  .  141,178 

Williston,  Hon.  Samuel     .  .  141,  17:'. 

Williston  Seminary,  .  .  17-'! 

Williams,  Col.  Israel,  letters  concerning  Hopkins  School.       .  77 

Concerning  Hopkins  Fund.  .  188 

Williams,  Rev.  Elisha        .  .  71 

Williams,  Rev.  Stephen     .  71 

Williams,  Rev.  Solomon  .  .71 

Williams,  Miss  Emily  H.  ."  .  142 

Williams,  Judge  Erastus  Smith  .  140 

Williams,  Rev.  Charles  N.  144 

Williams,  Hon.  P.  Smith,  committee  of  Town  to  confer  with  Trus- 
tees of  Hopkins  Academy,  109-120;  Building  Com- 
mittee, 131,  148;  School  Committee,  117. 

Winthrop,  History  quoted,  .  0,  8,  0.  14 

Winthrop,  Gov.  John,  Jr.,  corresponds  with  Davenport  and  Goodwin 

concerning  the  estate,  22-24;  Mr.  Dalley  deals  with  him,       24-25 
Witherell,  Rev.  Isaac    •     .  140 

Woodbridge,  Mr.  Ephraim  or  Samuel      .  .  70 

Woodbridgc,  Rev.  John,  D.D.,  ,  86,  110,  lie.  187 

Woodbridge,  Miss  Mindwell        .  144 

Woodbridge,  Mary  Ann,  Mrs.  Hawley  and  Mrs. Rev.  Parsons  Cook,  D.P,  153 
Woodbridge,  Miss  Susan  A.  .  144 

Woodbridge,  Rebecca  M.,  Mrs.  Judge  E.  S.  Williams,  144,  15:', 

Woodbridge,  John,  Jr..  Esq.,       .  .  140 

Woodbridge,  E.  Octavia,  Mrs.  Rev.  R,  H.  Richardson.  B.I).,  ir>8 

Woodbridge,  Rev.  Sylvester  14<5 

Woodbridge,  Rev.  Jahled  14(1 

Workman,  William,  M.  D.,  .  148 

Yonnglove,  Rev.  John        .  .  r>^>-  fiO 


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Page  4,  seventh  line  from  the  bottom,  after  members,  insert,  or  teachers. 
Page  17,  line  11,  for  opposed  read  approved. 
Page  51,  last  line  but  one,  for  Hopkin,s  read  Hopkins.s. 
Page  6.3,  note,  for  ater,  read  after. 
Page  142,  for  Stewart  read  Stuart. 

Page  145,  for  Alice  C.  Dickinson  read  Alice  E.  Dickinson. 
Page  160,  after  Henry  Parks  Smith,  &c.,read  John  B.  Dunbar,  Prof.  Latin 
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